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		</div><p>At least 13 people have been killed and 14 wounded in a suicide attack at the home of a prominent politician in the increasingly volatile eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.</p>
<p>The attacker detonated his explosives at the residential compound of Obaidullah Shinwari, a member of Nangarhar’s provincial council whose family is active in local and national politics.</p>
<p>His father, Malik Osman, is an influential community elder in the Shinwari district near the Pakistan border who has spoken out against about the presence in the region of the Islamic State group (IS).</p>
<p>Atuallah Khyogani, a spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial government, said a guesthouse on the compound was crowded with people who had been invited to a family event.</p>
<p>“The number of casualties is likely to increase because there were so many people there,” Ataullah said.</p>
<p>President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack, saying that as “terrorists lose their ability to fight Afghan forces on the battlefield, they are carrying out terror attacks on residential areas”.</p>
<p>The compound is close to the Pakistani consulate, targeted last week in an attack claimed by IS.</p>
<p>No group has yet claimed responsibility for the Sunday attack, but a Taliban spokesman posted a message on Twitter denying the group’s involvement.</p>
<p>Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar, has seen the number of threats and attacks rise in recent months as the presence of IS grows in the region.</p>
<p>Gunmen affiliated with IS have fought fierce battles with the Taliban, with IS taking control of at least four districts on the province’s border with Pakistan.</p>
<p>The attack comes a day ahead of a second round of high-level talks aimed at eventually brokering a peace deal between Kabul and the Taliban, who have been fighting for more than 14 years.</p>
<p>The talks will see representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China meet to formulate a roadmap for a dialogue that will eventually, they hope, include Taliban representatives.</p>
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