Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
November 21, 2018
Afghan authorities are working to identify those responsible for a suicide bombing that killed at least 55 people and wounded scores more who were attending a religious gathering in Kabul.
The victims included religious scholars from all over Afghanistan, invited by the Ulema Council to celebrate the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad on November 20.
“As of now we don’t know which militant organization could be behind the attack. Investigations are at a preliminary stage,” a senior investigator who was at the site said on November 21.
The Ulema Council, the country’s largest religious organization, brought together scholars from the Sunni sect.
Though Sunni themselves, Taliban and Islamic State fighters have targeted religious scholars aligned with the Afghan government in the past.
But the Taliban quickly denied any involvement, and spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said late on November 20 that his group condemned any attack on civilians or religious clerics.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a national day of mourning on November 21.
The U.S. ambassador to Kabul, John Bass, tweeted that he was “sickened and saddened by tonight’s terror attack.”
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said it was “outraged by Kabul bombing when communities across Afghanistan are marking day of special religious significance.”
Last week, Taliban leaders met U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at their political headquarters in Qatar in an effort to pave the way for peace talks. The three-day meeting was the second in the past month.
Khalilzad has declared a deadline of April 20 — when Afghanistan’s presidential election falls due — to end the war, but the country’s security situation has worsened since NATO formally ended combat operations in 2014.
With reporting by AFP, AP, and Reuters
Copyright (c) 2018. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
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All kinds of
rogue characters
are freely roaming the entire country- you could not pinpoint whether who did it,
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Many countries with complex interests are also involved in “Afghan quagmire” that it would make it extremely difficult
to find the real culprits-
ALL WE COULD DEDUCT IS:
.
THAT THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT
THE
LIVES
OF THE
REGULAR FOLKS
OF
AFGHANISTAN.
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OBVIOUSLY; THEY ARE DESIGNED
FOR
POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL
GAINS.
Baghlani, once again you spew that Pak Taliban camel dung. You are such an ignorant fool, it is a wonderment that you can figure out how to breathe air. Spit out that Taliban penis and get a job.
Son of a filthy pig- get lost !
A
TYPICAL FOREIGN
“PARASATIC MERCENARY”
IN
AFGHANISTAN.
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KICK
THE
MISFITS
OUT !
That is regular language
at
home- he
is
a
typical mercenary.
Just, pray for the safety
of
the people o
of
Afghanistan !
*THEY
ARE ALL
DEVIANTS .
“Soldiers of fortune”
would do
any thing
for their
*LOADED MASTERS”..
They sell their own ugly
mamas
for
a dollar- now; you
could imagine the
infixable
twisted character.
They are called
“online camp followers”- the albino
rats
and their
stooges roam
freely,
all over.