Afghan shooting won't change U.S. resolve in South Asia strategy: Pentagon

General Scott Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who had been at the meeting with General Abdul Razeq only moments earlier, was not injured in the attack.

A shooting in Afghanistan which killed one of the country's most powerful security officials will not change the U.S. resolve in its South Asia strategy, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

General Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan's most powerful security commanders, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting at the governor's office in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said.

"This attack will not change the U.S. resolve in our South Asia strategy if anything it makes us more resolute," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner told Reuters.

General Scott Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who had been at the meeting with General Abdul Razeq only moments earlier, was not injured in the attack.

 

(With inputs from agencies.)