Explosion hits Taliban’s interior ministry in Kabul as tensions with Pakistan escalate
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Attack comes just days after Taliban minister Khalil Haqqani was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul. At least 10 Taliban fighters were killed and five others were wounded in a major attack on the group’s ministry of interior in Kabul on Saturday as tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalated.
The attack that took place at the ministry headquarters on the airport road in Kabul has been claimed by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. It said a Taliban commander was also killed in the attack. Officials from the Taliban confirmed the attack on the significant building in the country but said that four people were wounded in the incident. Khalid Zadran, a Taliban spokesperson, said the injured had been taken to a hospital and an investigation has been launched into the attack.
The NRF, led by Ahmad Massoud, said that the attack targeted a security convoy of the Taliban’s ministry and three military vehicles were destroyed in the attack. The attack comes just days after the Taliban’s acting minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Haqqani, was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul. The senior member of the powerful Haqqani network and uncle of the Taliban’s interior minister and senior leader Sirajuddin Haqqani was killed in a major attack inside the ministry.
Officials of the resistance group said they are leaking security breaches inside the Taliban group. “Saturday’s attack was to demonstrate our capabilities against some of the Taliban’s well-guarded locations and this is not the only complex attack against the Taliban we’ve carried out. This year we’ve carried out more than 360 military operations against them in 20 provinces of Afghanistan,” said Ali Maisam Nazary, head of foreign relations.
