Afghan officials say all the insurgents who launched a ferocious attack on a top hotel in the capital, Kabul, have been killed. At least 10 civilians died in the night-time assault on the Intercontinental hotel; the Taliban say they were behind it.

Nasir Saberi, former deputy minister for housing, now a businessman spoke, to the World Service earlier.

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