A SUICIDE attack killed dozens of Shi’ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban.

A SUICIDE attack on a supermarket in Kabul’s upmarket embassy district yesterday killed at least nine people, three of them foreign women, in the first major Taliban assault on civilians in the capital for nearly a year.

A SUICIDE attack at Pakistan’s main army training base killed at least 42 soldiers yesterday, the military said.