“I gave orders for the formation of a special commission to be headed by the country’s attorney general that will include government and non-government personalities for the comprehensive investigations of the incident”.
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Both India and Pakistan have condemned the deadly suicide bombing attack in Kabul (Afghanistan), claimed by terror outfit Islamic State.
The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for the deadly bombing of a protest march in the Afghan capital, Kabul. “Kabul”, Amaq said. The attack represents a major escalation for IS, which so has largely been confined to the eastern province of Nangarhar.
An attack on a protest march in the Afghan capital has left 61 dead and hundreds wounded, The Associated Press reports, with Afghan officials saying the death toll is likely to rise.
Footage on Afghan television and photographs posted on social media showed a scene of carnage, with numerous bodies and body parts spread across the square. One managed to detonate, while the other was shot by police before triggering the bomb.
One source involved in the funding and routing of the pipeline, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue, said the decision to change the TUTAP line’s route was based on cost considerations.
The Hazara leaders had organized a peaceful rally to protest against government’s attempt to deprive the ethnic group of any power and infrastructure.
The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s spokesman, Haroon Chakhansuri, has made a statement that “three city district police chiefs were injured and another three security personnel were killed”.
Hussain Ali Rezaee, who participated in Saturday’s demonstration, said that people had started funeral ceremonies Sunday morning.
“They sold us and we will never forget this”, said Mr Ghulam Abbas, a Hazara mourner. The Hazara group had gathered to protest the construction of an electrical power line, and to demand that the line pass through the Bamiyan province, which has a large Hazara population and desperately needs the infrastructure.
Demonstrators gathered near Kabul University, several kilometers from the main government area, waving Afghan flags and chanting slogans like “Justice!” The last one in May attracted tens of thousands.
The attack was described as a “war crime” by the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, and said those responsible would be held to account.
Thousands of mainly young Hazaras were demonstrating peacefully in Kabul.
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The protesters were demanding that the construction of an electrical transmission line from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Kabul be rerouted through their province of Bamyan, which is not now connected to Afghanistan’s central electricity grid.
