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The UN has strongly condemned the bomb attack on the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, which killed 41 people and injured 141. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday's attack could not be justified by any "political agenda or grievance". Five embassy staff - India's defence attache, another diplomat, two security guards and an Afghan - were killed. No-one has admitted being behind the attack, the deadliest in Kabul since the overthrow of the Taleban in 2001. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is in Japan for the G8 summit, said he condemned the attack "in the strongest terms". "No political agenda or grievance can justify such reprehensible means," Mr Ban said. The UN Security Council described the attack as "reprehensible act of terrorism" . Close allies The Afghan interior ministry has said it believed... [read full story]
