ISLAMABAD - A roadside bomb in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, Monday wounded at least seven Afghans but missed a vehicle, carrying NATO-led peacekeeping troops, said media reports.
Reports said bomb, attached to a parked bicycle, went off when NATO vehicle had passed, leaving five Afghans, traveling in a taxi behind NATO vehicle, and two pedestrians wounded.
The blast occurred in the vicinity of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) compound. Reports said no one has claimed responsibility but authorities suspected Taliban supporters behind it.
Earlier, on Sunday a high-profile Muslim cleric allied with the Afghan government was gunned down by unknown assailants in the southern Kandahar city, former stronghold of Taliban. Maulvi Abdullah Fayaz, outspoken opponent of the Taliban and key supporter of President Hamid Karzai, was killed in a drive-by shooting by gunmen on a motorcycle as he left his office in Kandahar, said news reports.
He, last week, held a meeting of some 500 Muslim clerics from across the country that condemned the Taliban and urged public support for the US-backed government. He accused the Taliban of killing innocent civilians and said the government was making every effort to rebuild the war-torn country.
KUNA