The Shahr-i-Naw district of Kabul, where the headquarters of CARE International was stormed after a auto bomb was set off, is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the capital and the heart of the city’s entertainment area with carpet and antique shops as well as restaurants and Internet cafes.
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The assault on a charity called Pamlarena began on Monday with a massive explosion, just hours after a brazen Taliban double bombing near the defence ministry.
Afghanistan’s foreign partners, concerned about the ability of the security forces to withstand Taliban violence, are expected to pledge support over coming years at the Brussels conference, three months after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members reaffirmed their commitment at a meeting in Warsaw.
In its statement, however, the Taliban said that five of its fighters were involved in the attack. The building was surrounded by Afghan special forces, leading to a siege punctuated by sporadic gunfire.
“An armed group launched an attack on what is believed to have been an Afghan government compound located close to the Kabul office of CARE”, the charity said, adding its staff had been safely evacuated.
Such remarks and unfounded reports by Amnesty International show that this society is not a Human Right organization but is greatly influenced by the intelligence agencies of western invading countries.
A spokeswoman for CARE International said the charity could not immediately confirm if it had been the target of the attack.
The interior ministry said 42 people including 10 foreigners were rescued and added that no one was killed in the attack, revising its earlier toll of one fatality.
The organisation “strongly condemns the two terror blasts that took place near the Ministry of Defence in the Afghani capital”.
Another official said the deputy head of President Ashraf Ghani’s personal protection force was among those killed.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for those attacks.
“In fact, repeated terrorist attacks in Kabul have caused a kind of psychological problems among people, security situation is deteriorated, economic activities have been undermined due to increasing security incidents and even food security has been affected”, a political analyst Assadullah Walwalji told local media on Tuesday.
The violence comes more than a week after 16 people were killed when militants stormed the American University in Kabul.
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At least 80 people were killed by a suicide bomber who targeted a demonstration on July 23 in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
