A day after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing 41 people, including four Indians, a war-ravaged Afghanistan is looking for peace and trying to get on its feet.
The Indian mission in Kabul has been one of the prime targets for the Taliban who have been targeting Indian nationals working in the country to assist the Hamid Karzai government's reconstruction efforts in the war-torn country following the ouster of the militia by the US-led forces in 2005.
In the past, terrorists have targeted foreign missions and the worst case relates to the August 7, 1998 car bomb explosions targeting the US embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
Image: Afghan municipal workers clean rubble from shattered shops opposite the damaged entrance to the Indian Embassy.
Photographs: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images
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