Hashmat Khalil Karzai, a cousin of President Hamid Karzai and a powerful supporter of the presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed by a suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as he greeted well-wishers at his home. Karzai was killed instantly when a young man embraced him and set off a bomb in his turban. "The enemy of Afghanistan is always misusing our culture and religion by carrying out cunning and un-Islamic acts," said Kandahar governor Tooryalai Wesa. President Karzai also condemned the attack and expressed his condolences to friends and relatives of his cousin. "Like other Afghans that are being killed daily by these terrorist attacks, our family is not the exception and we accept this sacrifice," he said.
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