WORLD : Rebel Rockets Kill Seven in Kabul

Muslim rebels fired rockets into Kabul today, killing seven people and wounding three, a day after the Soviet Union pulled the last of its troops out of Afghanistan after nine years of intervention.

Foreign Ministry officials said one of the moujahedeen rockets landed outside a house in the western district of Khair Khana. Two girls and a boy were killed and two other children were injured. Another hit a minibus, killing the driver and two passengers south of Kabul airport, while a third rocket killed a 3-year-old child and wounded a woman, they said. Also today, the foreign minister said the government has asked the United Nations to set up outposts along the border with Pakistan to check the flow of arms to Muslim guerrillas.