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`Afghanistan to continue cooperation'

Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA: Afghanistan will continue its close cooperation with India in various sectors despite the efforts of some groups to subvert it, Afghanistan's ambassador to India K.M. Shugoolfan has said. Speaking to media persons in Kayamkulam on Saturday, Mr. Shugoolfan said his country was getting considerable help from India for its reconstruction. He was on his way to the home of R. Maniappan, the Border Roads Organisation employee who was killed in Afghanistan, at Chingoli in the district to handover the aid of his Government to Maniappan's family.

He said Afghanistan considered Maniappan, who was killed while engaged in the reconstruction of that country, as a martyr of the nation. "Our nation shares the sorrow of Maniappan's family," he said.

Mr. Shugoolfan said his country had 1.5 million women who were rendered widows by terrorists. He acknowledged that practically it was difficult to root out terrorism completely.

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