Burhanuddin Rabbani, former resident of Afghanistan and Chairman of the High Peace Council leading the year old Afghan effort to negotiate with the Taliban was killed in a bomb blast at his residence in the centre of Kabul's high security diplomatic district.
The bomb went off inside the house at 6 pm local time. Reports from Kabul suggested that he was meeting two members of the Taliban at the time of the blast as part of the ongoing efforts at reconciliation. Once of them is understood to have detonated the bomb while the other survived the blast with injuries. He and the driver of their vehicle are in custody.
The Associated press quoted the chief of criminal investigation of Kabul Police, Mohammad Zahir, as stating that a turbaned man entered Prof. Rabbani's house and blew himself up. Questions were being raised about how he accessed the house and the area without being frisked if that was the case.
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