Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta on Saturday described the murder of Benazir Bhutto, chairperson of Pakistan People Party, as a great loss and shocking event.
"It is a shock for us and it is a great loss," Spanta told newsmen at a brief chat after registering his feeling to Condolence Book in the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul.
Paying tribute to late Mrs. Bhutto, the Afghan foreign minister described her as a great leader and veteran politician in Pakistan and the Muslim world.
Spanta also expressed his condolences to the family of late Bhutto, the people and the government of Pakistan.
On Thursday, hours after the assassination of Mrs. Bhutto and some 20 others in a bomb attack, Afghan President Hamid Karzai termed it a coward act of terrorists and condemned it.
President Karzai, as a sign of respect to Pakistani opposition leader the late Mrs. Bhutto, ordered Friday that Afghanistan's national flag be flown at half mast at home and abroad for 24 hours.
Source: Xinhua
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