A Taliban suicide bomber, with explosives hidden in his turban, on Tuesday assassinated
's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading efforts to speak peace with insurgents.
The attacker had been invited into Rabbani's Kabul home with an accomplice as a result of it had been thought they were emissaries bringing "special messages" from the Taliban.
The bomb was detonated because the attacker hugged Rabbani - head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council established last year by President Hamid Karzai - in greeting.
His death is that the most high-profile political assassination since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power.
The High Peace Council has created very little clear progress towards peace talks with the Taliban and Rabbani's assassination appears to possess dealt a significant blow to its possibilities of doing therefore anytime soon.
But Karzai along side the u. s. and different countries insisted the peace method wouldn't be derailed.
The Afghan president referred to as Rabbani an "Afghan patriot who sacrificed his life," adding: "This won't deter us from continuing down the trail we've got started."
US President Barack Obama said the killing was a "senseless act of violence" that will not crush the Afghan drive for freedom whereas NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen added that those behind the killing "will not prevail."
The attackers got wind of Rabbani's house with Mohammad Massom Stanikzai, one amongst Rabbani's deputies, for a gathering before the turban bomber detonated his explosives, consistent with one supply amid conflicting reports of the incident.
Kabul criminal investigations chief Mohammad Zaher said 2 men "negotiating with Rabbani on behalf of the Taliban" got wind of his house, one with explosives hidden in his turban.
's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading efforts to speak peace with insurgents.
The attacker had been invited into Rabbani's Kabul home with an accomplice as a result of it had been thought they were emissaries bringing "special messages" from the Taliban.
The bomb was detonated because the attacker hugged Rabbani - head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council established last year by President Hamid Karzai - in greeting.
His death is that the most high-profile political assassination since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power.
The High Peace Council has created very little clear progress towards peace talks with the Taliban and Rabbani's assassination appears to possess dealt a significant blow to its possibilities of doing therefore anytime soon.
But Karzai along side the u. s. and different countries insisted the peace method wouldn't be derailed.
The Afghan president referred to as Rabbani an "Afghan patriot who sacrificed his life," adding: "This won't deter us from continuing down the trail we've got started."
US President Barack Obama said the killing was a "senseless act of violence" that will not crush the Afghan drive for freedom whereas NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen added that those behind the killing "will not prevail."
The attackers got wind of Rabbani's house with Mohammad Massom Stanikzai, one amongst Rabbani's deputies, for a gathering before the turban bomber detonated his explosives, consistent with one supply amid conflicting reports of the incident.
Kabul criminal investigations chief Mohammad Zaher said 2 men "negotiating with Rabbani on behalf of the Taliban" got wind of his house, one with explosives hidden in his turban.
