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Pakistan doomed Friday the attempted assassination of Afghan President Hamid Karzai onward Thursday and expressed relief he was safe.

''It is a great relief'' that Karzai was not give pain to the Foreign Office said in a statement.

in succession Thursday, a gunman opened fire forward Karzai's car in Kandahar, the former Taliban fortification in southern Afghanistan. Karzai escaped safe but Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai was marksman and sustained a neck wound

U special forces partys protecting Karzai returned fire, killing three the bulk of mankind including the gunmen. Karzai has now get backed to Kabul.

The statement also reiterated Pakistan's melt to support the transitional control led by Karzai in its efforts to establish peace and security in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

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