In Afghanistan, at least forty people have died after a suicide bomber attacked a wedding party in Kandahar province. Dozens of people were wounded in the blast. Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s former head of intelligence services says President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US strategy in Afghanistan and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the Taliban insurgency. The Guardian newspaper reports Amrullah Saleh believes Karzai lost confidence some time ago in the ability of NATO forces to defeat the Taliban. Saleh resigned from his post last week.