Afghan security personel stand guard near the airport complex in Kandahar on December 9, 2015.
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Expectations for a resumption of the discussions appeared even more remote after Afghan security forces continued until Wednesday afternoon and struggled against a Taliban attack at the airport in the southern city of Kandahar that started on Tuesday evening.
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“Fifty of our innocent countrymen, including 10 soldiers, two policemen and 38 civilians, were martyred in the attack”, the defense ministry said in a statement.
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“The last attacker was killed around 20:15 last night”, Defence Ministry spokesperson Dawlat Waziri said.
It was the largest city captured by the Taliban since the radical Islamist movement was driver by power in Kabul in November 2001 by Afghan opposition forces and USA airstrikes. The airport compound houses the joint North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Afghan military headquarters.
A spokesman for NATO’s Resolute Support mission said there had been no reports of casualties among the hundreds of worldwide personnel on the base but he had no other details.
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The attack will likely renew concerns about the capabilities of the Afghan security forces, who have been stretched by a stubborn insurgency since the worldwide military coalition withdrew most of its troops and turned over responsibility for the country’s security to Afghan forces at the end of previous year.
The raid coincided with Afghan President Ghani’s high-profile visit to Islamabad on Wednesday for the Heart of Asia conference aimed at promoting regional ties.
Failure to reach a deal threatens to sap USA military resources, disrupt planned Chinese investments and deepen a conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
The southern Kandahar and Helmand provinces, both notorious for growing poppy and militancy, have been regarded as traditional hotbeds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
He said at least 18 members of the security forces and civilians had been killed and 11 wounded, including two women.
It claimed that the assailants reported that about 80 Afghan and foreign forces had been killed and 13 armoured carriers destroyed.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stressed his commitment to “an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process”, a reference to the talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, hosted by Pakistan, that foundered after one round in July.
