At least 12 people have been killed after fighters launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on the intelligence office in the central Pakistani city of Multan, police sources have said.Agha Yusuf, a senior police officer, said on Tuesday that security force members were among the 12 dead and that at least three fighters in a car carried out the attack.One of them first fired a rocket and an automatic weapon at a police checkpoint.
Source: Al-Jazeera
Mr Karzai was optimistic Afghan troops would assume control in five yearsAfghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has warned that it will take 15 years before the country is able to pay for the cost of its own security forces.
Source:BBC
