Kabul attack

Peace in Afghanistan seems to be a far off dream, so too even the slightest veneer of it. On Friday, a suicide bombing at a French restaurant in the Afghan capital of Kabul sent residents reeling. One child was killed and a dozen or so people injured. No doubt, the restaurant was a soft target; it was one of those last remaining places that was frequented by foreigners and was thought of as relatively safer than most other places in the city, and in the country. That image was not to be. The attack comes almost two years after a similar attack at a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, a much deadlier strike that killed as many as 21 people and injured many more.