Militants kill 11 in Afghanistan

Militants killed six police and five medical workers in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan.

President Hamid Karzai today said he believed the rebels were receiving support from the nation’s booming drug trade.

Karzai made his comments about the violence in a press conference with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

He said there was “co-operation between the drug trade and terrorism”.

“We will have terrorism attacking (us) ... for quite some time,” he warned.

The police were killed by suspected Taliban rebels who ambushed their convoy in mountains in Uruzgan province yesterday, the second major attack on the fledgling force in two days, local Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan said.

The attack on the medical workers occurred today near Kandahar city, a former Taliban stronghold, said doctor Abdul Qadir, director of Afghan Help Development Services, a local aid group that employed the five.