The increase in violence comes as NATO-led forces prepare to hand security responsibility to Afghans in seven areas. This was to be the start of a gradual transition process that will end with all foreign troops leaving Afghanistan by the end of 2014. A two-day conference to discuss the transition process was due to begin in a government building in the center of the city today. Violence across Afghanistan in 2010 was already at its worst levels since the Taliban were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001.

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