Tributes paid to Briton among restaurant suicide attack victims

Del Singh, 39, was one of two Britons killed in the devastating attack at a restaurant in Kabul on Friday.

The attack, for which the 
Taliban quickly claimed responsibility, left 21 people dead, including senior UN officials, Afghan dignitaries and restaurant 
staff.

Simon Chase, a former British soldier from Limavady, Co Londonderry, was also killed.

Mr Singh, from Southampton, was due to stand for the South East in May’s European elections and was working as an international adviser supporting the Afghan Budget Department in Kabul at the time of the blast.

His family told the Sunday Telegraph he was “funny, big-hearted and humble”. His partner, Komal Adris, 35, said he had advised Labour leader Ed Miliband on Israeli and Palestinian policy and travelled regularly to Afghanistan.

She told the newspaper: “He loved the country. He’s been going there on and off for around six years. He kept going back to these conflict areas because he wanted to see a more peaceful world.”

Mr Singh’s sister, Dishi Phangurha, 34, told the Telegraph he had spoken with his family on Thursday, saying: “He was so optimistic so there was no suggestion something like this was about to happen.”

Tributes poured in for Mr Singh yesterday, with Mr Miliband saying that through his 10 years of development work in countries like Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sudan and Sierra Leone, he had “dedicated his life to working with people across the world who needed his support.”

Mr Chase, originally from Merseyside, was working as a close protection officer for the EU mission in Afghanistan, the Sunday Telegraph said, and died as he tried to protect a female Danish police officer, who was also killed.