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Kabul police chief resigns after spate of attacks: spokesman

Monday, December 01, 2014


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KABUL: Kabuls police chief resigned on Sunday, a spokesman said, after the Afghan
capital was hit by at least nine militant attacks in the last two weeks with foreign
compounds, embassy vehicles and US troops among those targeted.

General Zahir Zahir resigned shortly after he confirmed that three South Africans and an Afghan
citizen were killed in a Taliban attack on Saturday evening. Zahir said the head of a foreign
organization, his son and his daughter were all killed, but the identity of the organization was
still not confirmed. The attackers first shot dead the director as they entered the building, Zahir
said at a press conference, giving no further details. After the event, Kabul police spokesman
Hashmat Stanakzai told the media that Zahir had resigned. General Zahir Zahir told the interior
ministry he no longer wanted to continue his job. The minister has accepted his resignation,
Stanakzai said.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed on Twitter that the compound hit on Saturday
was that of a secret Christian missionary group and that a meeting of Australian visitors had been
hit. The US-led Nato combat mission in Afghanistan will end on December 31 and be replaced
by a follow-on mission supporting the Afghan army and police, who have taken over
responsibility for thwarting the Taliban.

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