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The United Nations plans to boost its security staff in Afghanistan after Taliban militants' deadly attack on a UN guesthouse earlier this week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.He said that Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan had become the most dangerous place on the planet for the United Nations' civilian staff. The UN is a civilian operation. We are working there to help the Afghanistan people but our mission is not safe and vulnerable. We need the full protection of the Afghanistan Government and the international community, Ban said. Not counting (UN) peacekeepers, 27 UN civilian personnel have lost their lives to violence so far this year, more than half of them in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he added.
