Death Toll in Kabul Bombing Has Hit 150, Afghan President Says

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Death Toll in Kabul Bombing Has Hit 150, Afghan President Says
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The skirmishes have since subsided, but demonstrators set up at least three camps and defied government orders to disband.
Mr. Abdullah had run for president on the Jamiat party ticket,
but a dispute over election results ended in a negotiated National Unity Government with Mr. Ghani as president and Mr. Abdullah as his chief executive.
But shortly after the president opened the Kabul Process, at least one rocket was fired into the Green Zone nearby, the area
that houses the headquarters of the coalition forces as well as several foreign embassies, the police said; the weapon landed at a tennis court close to the American military headquarters, but no one was injured.
Mr. Ghani made no clear new initiatives at the peace talks
but said the government was ready to meet with the Taliban anywhere and would agree to their opening an official office where representatives of both sides could convene.
At the funerals on Saturday, Mr. Ghani noted, one of the suicide blasts struck a man standing
near the chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, who is his partner in a coalition government.
" the president said. that Half of the body of a person standing less than two meters away from
Dr. Abdullah ended up in one hospital, while the other half was taken to a different one,