Aid agency pulls out of Afghanistan

Nobel prize-winning relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said today that it was pulling out of Afghanistan because of the killing of five of its staff and the danger of further attacks.

The group said it was also leaving because it was unhappy with an Afghan government investigation into the June 2 deaths and with the “co-optation of humanitarian aid” by US-led forces there “for military and political motives”.