Three Indian engineers among six killed in Khost: Taliban
Thursday, February 05, 2009
By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday claimed to have killed six people, including three Indian engineers, in Mandozai area of the Khost province.
A senior Taliban commander, who wished not to be named, called The News from an undisclosed location and claimed they blew up a pick-up truck, carrying three Indian engineers and their two Afghan security guards and a translator to the site.
He said the Indian engineers were working on the India-sponsored Rs 100 million Khost-Kabul Road. “We had warned them earlier through local tribal elders not to work on the road project as by doing so they would be helping the US forces in strengthening their roots in Khost province,” remarked the Taliban commander.
He said his men had planted an improvised explosive device to hit the latest model pick-up truck. “We want to make it clear that Taliban will not allow foreign construction companies to work in our country where our people are fighting the US-led occupation forces,” the militant commander explained.
not sure where that “news” is from, but the frontier post says this about the incident.
Indian engineer among 4 hurt in Khost blast
KHOST (PAN): A mine blast in Khost province injured at least four persons including a foreign engineer and three Afghans, officials said Wednesday. The explosion occurred at about 8am in Aronda area in eastern Mandozio district of Khost province when workers of a foreign road construction company were at work on Gardez Highway this morning, Daulat Khan, district chief of Mandozio told Pajhwok Afghan News. “An engineer of a foreign road construction company along with his two Afghan guards and an Afghan translator were injured in the roadside blast,” Khan said. He added that all the injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital, but would not say about the extent of their injuries. He declined to comment on the nationality of the engineer, but it is said that an Indian company is constructing the Gardez Highway. A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid has claimed responsibility for the blast and said several guards and foreigners were killed in the explosion. Work on the 110 kilometers long road has been launched by an Indian company since last six months and it would cost 98 million US dollars. Local and foreign workers had faced with similar roadside explosions on the highway in the past.
This i*ncident ocurred in Pakistan*. Is there anyone else that you can blame for it ?
Good to know that Khost is in Pakistan now, i wonder what Karzai and Americans has to say on this geographical changes, and if Khost is in Pakistan, what the hell these engineers where doing in Pakistan.