A bicycle bomb outside the Pakistani consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat wounded a police guard and two civilians on Thursday. Afghanistan has suffered scores of Taleban suicide and roadside bombs that have killed more than 200 civilians already this year, but Herat is relatively peaceful and most violence there analysts say is carried out by armed gangs and criminals. The explosives were attached to a bicycle near a police kiosk outside the consulate, wounding a police guard and a woman and a child. There was no damage to the consulate. Pakistan condemned the bombing. “The government of Pakistan holds the government of Afghanistan responsible for the safety and security of its personnel in its embassy in Kabul and consulates in Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Mazar-i-Sharif,” Pakistan's Foreign Office said in a statement. “We hope that the government of Afghanistan will take its responsibility seriously. The ambassador of Afghanistan is being summoned to the Foreign Office to convey the grave concerns of the government of Pakistan,” it said.
