Pakistan’s president condemns Kabul blast, accuses Taliban of allowing militant ‘safe havens’

KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday condemned a blast that ripped through a Chinese-run restaurant in Kabul, killing at least seven people, while criticizing Afghanistan’s Taliban administration for allowing “safe havens” to militant groups to export extremist violence in the region. The explosion struck the restaurant in Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw commercial district, an area considered one of the safest in the Afghan capital, killing one Chinese national and six Afghans and wounding several others, including a child, according to Afghan authorities.

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