KABUL, Afghanistan – Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.

Russia’s recent moves and statements concerning Georgia and its breakaway regions are raising tensions and “undermining a fragile situation”, a Nato spokesman has said.Speaking in Brussels, James Appathurai said: “Nato is watching with concern and wants to see all parties avoid the kind of rhetoric which is escalating tensions.”

According to news sources in Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, one of murtad officers a member of “Ministry of Internal Affairs” gang was shot dead in the village of Ali-Yurt last Wednesday. Local puppet sources said that “the policeman died of negligence in handling of weapon”.