Unpacking the Attempted Assassination of Asadullah Khalid
December 20, 2012![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/Asadullah_Khalid.jpg?itok=O60X33S6)
A suicide bombing in Kabul on December 6 targeted the head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), Asadullah Khalid, in an event that has rattled Afghan elites and rekindled controversy between Afghanistan and Pakistan.