Afghan President Karzai cancels UK trip

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has annulled a appointment to the UK to acknowledgment to Afghanistan, afterwards Tuesday's baleful attacks in the capital, Kabul, and in the arctic burghal of Mazar-i-Sharif.The accompanying attacks allegedly targeting Shia Muslims dead at atomic 58 people.A suicide bomb addled a Kabul shrine, killing at atomic 54, while the added bang addled abreast a Shia abbey in Mazar-i-Sharif at about the aforementioned time.The attacks seemed to be sectarian, adopting fears of fresh violence.Mr Karzai was in Germany on Tuesday black to appear the all-embracing appointment on his country in Bonn, and was after due to biking to the UK.He said beforehand it was "the aboriginal time that on such an important religious day in Afghanistan agitation of that abhorrent attributes is demography place".The blasts coincided with the Shia Muslim anniversary of Ashura - the best important day in the Shia agenda which is apparent with a accessible anniversary in Afghanistan.Ashura is the acme of Muharram, the ages of aching for the affliction of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.Though tensions abide amid Afghanistan's Sunni and boyhood Shia Muslims, best attacks in Afghanistan in contempo years accept targeted government admiral or all-embracing forces, correspondents say.