Burhanuddin Rabbani buried in Kabul

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Burhanuddin Rabbani was  buried  in Kabul on Friday after being assassinated by a suicide bomber on Tuesday. Rabbani was the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, and his death is thought as major setback to the Afghan government. David Loyn, correspondent for the BBC, and author of “In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian, and American Occupation” reports from the funeral.

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