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A number of other Natoservice members and foreign contracted civilians were wounded in the Friday night attack, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation spokesman Coonel.

“Pakistan condemns these deadly attacks in Afghanistan in the strongest terms”, the ministry said, adding that Pakistan will continue to support and facilitate an “Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process” with the Taliban.

Pakistan, which is believed to have strong influence over the Taliban, had been mediating peace talks launched last month, but postponed them indefinitely after the announcement of Mullah Omar’s death.

A vehicle bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the global airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.

The acknowledgment, made in a statement released by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, came a day after Afghanistan’s government announced that the reclusive Islamic cleric had died in April 2013.

At least five people were killed Monday when a Taliban suicide auto bomber struck near the entrance of Kabul’s worldwide airport, the latest in a wave of lethal bombings in the Afghan capital.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed dozens of cadets at the police academy but no claim was made for the other attacks.

A auto bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the worldwide airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.

The Taliban are stepping up their summer offensive, launched in late April, amid a bitter leadership dispute following the announcement of the death of longtime supremo Mullah Omar.

Following the death of longtime Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, a Taliban spokesman has confirmed that Mullah Akhtar Mohammad has been named as the group’s new leader.

The Taliban issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack on the base. A suicide bomber targeted members of an irregular anti-Taliban militia, killing 25 people, according to a local police spokesman.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Friday (August 7) that deceased Taliban chief Mullah Omar was neither killed nor buried in Pakistan.

“A suicide auto bomb attack at the entrance of Hamid Karzai worldwide Airport and has caused casualties both on civilians and security forces”, Danish said.

“Since I took office, Afghans have been waiting for Pakistan to show their tangible commitment” to peace, Ghani said, speaking in Afghan Pashto.

Explosions and gunfire also erupted when Camp Integrity, a US special forces base in Kabul, came under attack late Friday, killing nine people, including a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation service member.