'', Yahoo! News / AFP, 9 May 2008

EXCERPT: "Security fears have stopped even a single company from bidding to build a new parliament for Afghanistan after the Indian government floated tenders, an official said Friday [9 May 2008]. New Delhi's Central Public Works Department had invited tenders last year for the multi-million-dollar project in Kabul, but did not receive any response by the February deadline which has now been extended. The official told AFP about 10 construction firms had shown interest, but then raised security issues after several Indian engineers were killed in Afghanistan."

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