Kabul - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Wednesday that restrictions on troop deployment by some European nations hinder the alliance in Afghanistan.

During a three-day visit to the country, Sheffer admitted that he had been unable to convince some NATO countries to relax restrictions on troop movements.

Kabul  - Three civilians were wounded Wednesday in a blast triggered by a roadside bomb in Kabul as NATO's highest-level decision-making body, led by its secretary general, was ending a visit to the war-torn country.

The explosion took place near an oil pump station in Kota Sangi, an area in western Kabul after a convoy of NATO forces had passed the area.

Kabul - The remains of former Afghan president Mohammad Daud Khan, killed in a Soviet-backed coup over three decades ago, were reburied in Kabul on Tuesday.

President Hamid Karzai, members of Afghan cabinet, MPs and family members paid their respects as Khan's remains were placed in coffin in a ceremony held in the fortified presidential compound where he and 16 members of family were killed in 1978.

Kabul - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Kabul on Monday that his country was allowing cargo supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan through its territory to cooperate with the stabilization of the war-torn country.

Lavrov arrived in Kabul on Monday on a one-day trip to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart, Rangin Dadfar Spanta and other Afghan leaders including members of the parliament.

Kabul  - A suicide bomber dressed in police uniform detonated his explosives-filled vest Monday in front of a police station in southern Afghanistan, killing at least eight people and wounding several others, a government spokesman said.

The bomber tried to enter the provincial police headquarters in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, but was stopped by security guards, said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for Helmand's governor.

Kabul  - Two British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, bringing the total number of foreign soldiers killed in the country over the weekend to nine, the British military said Monday.

The soldiers were were part of British forces stationed in Helmand province with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the British Defence Ministry said in a statement.

The incident took place in the Garmsir district as the soldiers were conducting patrols in the area, the ministry said.