Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul was plagued by violence Friday, with gunfire erupting at the Pakistani embassy in an Islamic State-led assassination attempt on Pakistan's chief envoy and a suicide bomb attack near the office of a major Afghani political party. A gunman staked at a building nearby the embassy opened fire as Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani, Pakistan's senior envoy, was leaving, seriously wounding one body guard. The U.S. State Department condemned the embassy shooting, but has not commented on the suicide bombing. "We offer our sympathies and wish a quick recovery to those affected by the violence," State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a Saturday news conference of the embassy attack. Taliban officials denied accusations they were providing al Zawahiri safe harbor, something U.S. leaders dispute.
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