The suicide attack occurred in a police station near the presidential palace in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Four security personnel and five civilians were killed.
BBC correspondent in Kabul says the attack was apparently part of a Taliban operation to attack the heart of the Afghan government.
In other parts of the city, two police officers were injured when they tried to defuse roadside bombs. Police said that in Kabul the security forces are doing confiscation of weapons and explosives.
In the city of Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan, the resistance fighters attacked two convoys of NATO troops, killing four guards.
Three men wearing Afghan army uniforms stormed the police station and fired at the police, said Mohammed Hanayon, an eyewitness, as dukutip AFP news agency.
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Interior Ministry said in a statement that Pera attacker detonated a suicide vest bomb outside the gate, while others moved closer and fired a shot.
Gunshots heard in the streets are crowded with residents were out shopping and work.
Saturday is the first business day in the weekly calendar Afghanistan.
The suicide attack occurred after President Hamid Karzai to do a press conference on Saturday (18 / 6) to explain that the current ongoing peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban movement.
According to Karzai, the talks were intended to bring the Taliban into the process of national reconciliation. However, the Taliban have said they will join talks if foreign troops are out of all of Afghanistan.
Four security personnel and five civilians were killed.
BBC correspondent in Kabul says the attack was apparently part of a Taliban operation to attack the heart of the Afghan government.
In other parts of the city, two police officers were injured when they tried to defuse roadside bombs. Police said that in Kabul the security forces are doing confiscation of weapons and explosives.
In the city of Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan, the resistance fighters attacked two convoys of NATO troops, killing four guards.
Three men wearing Afghan army uniforms stormed the police station and fired at the police, said Mohammed Hanayon, an eyewitness, as dukutip AFP news agency.
peace talks
Interior Ministry said in a statement that Pera attacker detonated a suicide vest bomb outside the gate, while others moved closer and fired a shot.
Gunshots heard in the streets are crowded with residents were out shopping and work.
Saturday is the first business day in the weekly calendar Afghanistan.
The suicide attack occurred after President Hamid Karzai to do a press conference on Saturday (18 / 6) to explain that the current ongoing peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban movement.
According to Karzai, the talks were intended to bring the Taliban into the process of national reconciliation. However, the Taliban have said they will join talks if foreign troops are out of all of Afghanistan.
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