In a statement, the palace said the six were executed for perpetrating serious crimes against civilians and security forces, and after demands from victims’ families.
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The attacked widely sparked anger of the citizens and politicians, who asked president to execute the terrorists, responsible of killing Afghan people. “I am really anxious about the Taliban’s retaliation that may bomb everywhere”.
The six prisoners were hanged in the morning inside the Pul-i-Charkhi prison – a detention facility on the outskirts of Kabul that is notorious among Afghans as the site of massive executions by the country’s then-communist regime during the 1980s.
“The Haqqani network’s closer integration with the Taliban command also creates awkwardness for the Obama administration, and is raising tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan”, it said.
Peace efforts stalled this year after the Taliban refused to participate in new talks with the Afghan government until foreign forces left the country.
The hangings come amid increasing concerns over security in Afghanistan.
In its response, the Taliban vowed revenge attacks against government offices responsible for carrying out the executions.
Government officials, hopeful that the Taliban would enter into peace negotiations, had stopped executing captured prisoners during President Hamid Karzai’s administration.
The executions followed a promise from the president, Ashraf Ghani, to take a harder line against the Taliban after a massive truck bomb on 19 April in Kabul killed at least 64 people.
Taliban leaders have recently warned that it will respond to executions by killing government prisoners in their captivity. But police said 14 fighters were killed before the group was driven off.
A separate statement from the National Directorate for Security, Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency, gave the identities of the six condemned men and detailed the attacks for which they were convicted.
Army Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cleveland, spokesman the USA -led mission in Afghanistan, said the Romanians were assisting with hands-on training “when some of those they were training apparently fired on them”.
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Nabil, who now runs a charity for wounded Afghan soldiers, said the merger had been helped by the fact that the Haqqanis were struggling financially, after their chief fund-raiser was gunned down near Islamabad in 2013, and that the Taliban needed Haqqani’s expertise in waging complex attacks.
