At least ten people, including a tribal chief ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, were killed in a suicide attack occurred during a tribal meeting in Asmara, in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, the Ministry of Interior. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in his vest during a tribal meeting in the Asmar district, killing the former commander Malik Zarin and nine civilians," said Interior in a statement.
Zarin was an influential tribal chief of Kunar known for his fight against Soviet troops in the 1980's, and now he was considered close to President Karzai, who was advising on tribal affairs. A senior official of the province, Haji Fazel Akbar, said that among the dead were also a son and a nephew of Zarin.
"This explosion does not bear the signature of the Taliban. We do not claim authorship," a rebel spokesman who identified himself as Zabiullah Mujahid. According to Mujahid, Zarin had bad relations with other tribal chiefs in the province, located along the border with Pakistan and one of the main areas of influence of the Taliban and other groups in its orbit.
"There is a high probability that the event was caused by personal enmity," agreed another official source of Kunar. The Taliban have often resorted to suicide bombings in their struggle to overthrow the Afghan government to establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime and to achieve the expulsion of foreign troops in the country.
The mountainous and remote province of Kunar, bordering Pakistan, is one of the strongholds of the rebellion which stars the Taliban and Al Qaeda against the Kabul government and its international allies of NATO. Suicide bombings are, along with homemade bombs placed on roads, the weapons of choice of the rebels. 
Zarin was an influential tribal chief of Kunar known for his fight against Soviet troops in the 1980's, and now he was considered close to President Karzai, who was advising on tribal affairs. A senior official of the province, Haji Fazel Akbar, said that among the dead were also a son and a nephew of Zarin.
"This explosion does not bear the signature of the Taliban. We do not claim authorship," a rebel spokesman who identified himself as Zabiullah Mujahid. According to Mujahid, Zarin had bad relations with other tribal chiefs in the province, located along the border with Pakistan and one of the main areas of influence of the Taliban and other groups in its orbit.
"There is a high probability that the event was caused by personal enmity," agreed another official source of Kunar. The Taliban have often resorted to suicide bombings in their struggle to overthrow the Afghan government to establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime and to achieve the expulsion of foreign troops in the country.
The mountainous and remote province of Kunar, bordering Pakistan, is one of the strongholds of the rebellion which stars the Taliban and Al Qaeda against the Kabul government and its international allies of NATO. Suicide bombings are, along with homemade bombs placed on roads, the weapons of choice of the rebels.
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