A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan peace envoy and former mujahedeen commander on Friday, along with his son in an eastern region close to the Pakistan border, officials said. Maulavi Mohammad Hashem Munib, the head of the High Peace Council in Kunar province, was the target, said provincial police chief Ewaz Mohammad Nazari.
"He was on his way home from Friday prayers when he was attacked by a suicide attacker," he told AFP. One witness said that both Munib and the attacker had been torn to pieces, with body parts littering the scene. Kunar, which borders Pakistan, is a stronghold of the Taliban-led insurgency against President Hamid Karzai's government and its Western allies.