Kabul - A district governor and a police chief were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, police said Tuesday.

The governor for Registan district in the southern province of Kandahar, Amir Mohammad, and district police chief Assadullah Khan were killed Monday night, Matiullah Khan, provincial police chief of Kandahar, said.

He said four bodyguards were wounded in the attack that took place near Spin Boldak, another district in the province.

Islamabad - Pakistan has assured Afghanistan that it is making earnest efforts to recover the Afghan ambassador-designate who was abducted in the north-western city of Peshawar, a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

The Afghan diplomat was kidnapped by armed men on Monday after an ambush during which his driver was shot dead. He was returning home in his official vehicle when it was intercepted in the upmarket Hayatabad neighbourhood.

"The government of Pakistan is taking all necessary measures for safe and early recovery of Ambassador-designate Abdul Khaleq Farahi," the statement cited Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi as saying during a talk with his Afghan counterpart Rangin Dadfar Spanta.

Islamabad, Sept 23: Pakistan has reportedly assured Afghanistan of taking all “necessary measures” to ensure the safety of its abducted ambassador Abdul Khaliq Farahi in Pakistan.

Kabul - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car Tuesday near a convoy of German and Afghan troops in northern Afghanistan, killing himself but causing no other casualties, a provincial governor said.

The attack took place in the centre of the northern city of Kunduz, the capital of the province of the same name, when a joint Afghan and German military convoy was passing by, Governor Mohammad Omar said.

"No one was killed or wounded in the explosion as the bomber exploded himself some 100 metres from the convoy," Omar said.

"There was a big bang, and the window panes of several houses in the area, including mine, were broken," local resident Sayed Ahmad said.

New York, Sept 23: In the aftermath of the Saturday’s hotel blast in Islamabad killing 60 persons, the US State Department has said that Washington needed to carry on working with Pakistan and Afghanistan in combating terrorism.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said that the massive blast showed why all the three – the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan – needed to work together in fighting out terrorism.

“If you look at what happened on Saturday, this is an example of why we, the Pakistanis, the Afghans, need to work and redouble our efforts to counter extremism in this region. We’ll continue to work with the Pakistanis on trying to deal with the Taliban and Al Qaeda threat,” the Daily Times quoted Wood as saying.

Kabul - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car Tuesday near a convoy of German and Afghan troops in northern Afghanistan, killing himself but causing no other casualties, a provincial governor said.

The attack took place in the centre of the northern city of Kunduz, the capital of the province of the same name, when a joint Afghan and German military convoy was passing by, Governor Mohammad Omar said.

"No one was killed or wounded in the explosion as the bomber exploded himself some 100 metres from the convoy," Omar said.

"There was a big bang, and the window panes of several houses in the area, including mine, were broken," local resident Sayed Ahmad said.