Twin suicide bombings at a peaceful protest by Hazaras in Kabul left more than 80 people dead and another 260 injured in what is one of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan this year. A third suicide bomber was killed by security forces before he could detonate his vest. The Islamic State, beginning to gain a foothold in Afghanistan, has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is not the first time that the Hazara population, targeted…
Posts published in “Day: July 26, 2016”
We condemn Saturday’s bomb attack in Kabul on a peaceful demonstration of Hazaras that killed eighty and wounded hundreds. The demonstrators were demanding that the original route of the power lines of a proposed power project be adhered to and not bypass the province of Bamyan, a Hazara dominated province. Obviously the attack has an ethnic undertone, the Hazaras being Shias, which demonstrates the continuing widening of the faultiness in Afghan society. It is a…
Karnail, a Haqqani network commander, was killed in a clash with security forces in eastern Khost province on Sunday, local officials said. The clash took place in Sapera district of the province after security forces opened fire on the insurgents, Provincial Police Chief Faizullah Ghairat said. Ghairat said Karnail was a resident of Dowa Manda of Khost and he was involved in insurgency activities. “Two other members of Haqqani were injured and another was arrested…
By EHSANULLAH AMIRI and JESSICA DONATI KABUL—Afghanistan stepped up security in Kabul in response to a weekend bombing of a protest march by Islamic State that killed more than 80 people and injured hundreds, in the first major attack by the group outside its stronghold in the country’s east. President Ashraf Ghani ordered Afghan forces to increase security at mosques, with a particular focus on those in western Kabul, where the attack took place. “Afghan…
By MUJIB MASHAL, ZAHRA NADER and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KABUL— One after another, the bodies arrived on the steep hill in western Kabul. For much of Sunday afternoon, an excavator was flattening the dusty area as men with shovels and pickaxes dug graves — four rows of 20 or so, packed so close that if the dead could stretch out their arms, they would touch those next to them. In the hours that followed, nearly two…
The loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have released photographs which purportedly shows the two suicide bombers who attacked a mass demonstration in Kabul. The photographs were released by the sympathizers of the terror group on Twitter social media a day after the attack left at least 80 people dead. The two suicide bombers have been identified as Najibullah Al-Afghani and Talhat Al-Afghan, according to the caption of the…
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said state to state relations with Pakistan are a bigger challenge for Afghanistan than the existence of terror groups such as Al-Qaeda and Taliban. In an interview with Geo News, the Afghan President alleged that Pakistan provides sanctuaries to terrorists and trains them, making relations with Pakistan, the bigger challenge for his country. “We cannot understand when Pakistan says it will not allow a group of terrorists to…