Deadliest attacks in Afghanistan

Twin blasts at Afghan shrines on the Shiite holy day of Ashura left at least 58 people dead yesterday, a day after an international meeting in Germany on furthering efforts to end the Afghan war. The following is a chronology of some of the worst insurgent attacks in Afghanistan since 2001:

September 5, 2002: A double bombing near a ministry building in Kabul kills at least 35 people.

November 6, 2007: 79 people, most of them schoolchildren, die when a suicide bomber attacks an official rally at a sugar factory in Baghlan province, north of Kabul. - February 17, 2008: 140 people die when a suicide attacker blows himself up at a dog-fighting contest on the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar. - February 18, 2008: A Taliban suicide car bomb aimed at Canadian troops kills at least 37 civilians in a market for spare automobile parts in the town of Spin Boldak, close to the Pakistani border in Kandahar province.

More than 60 people die in a car bomb attack on the Indian embassy building in the capital Kabul on July 7, 2008. Five Indians are among the dead, two of them senior diplomats. AFP