Top Afghan officials, including chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, Ahmad Wali Massoud, brother of Afghanistan’s national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud , and many political elites of Afghanistan plus a number of foreign ambassadors have come together in Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry to mark the 18th assassination anniversary of the country's National hero Ahmad Shah Massoud .

Rasa - Ahmad Shah Massoud was Afghanistan's national hero and anti-occupation resistance icon assassinated nearly two decades ago. The 17th anniversary of his assassination has been observed by laying a wreath at the Minaret of Resistance in Massoud Square in Wazir Akbar Khan in Kabul.

Rasa - A man has blown himself up near a ceremony commemorating the death of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet war hero Ahmad Shah Massoud in the capital Kabul, killing at least seven people.