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Kabul, 22 May (EFE) .- At least one person was injured in a bomb blast this Sunday near a convention center in Kabul, where the sixth anniversary of the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was marked.
The blast happened on the airport road in front of the Istiqlal Convention Center, where dozens of Taliban regime officials commemorated Mullah Mansour, who died in May 2016 after being shot dead by a US drone in Pakistan.
“According to initial information, one of our compatriots has been injured and security forces have arrived in the area,” Kabul Police Chief Khalid Zadran said on Twitter, noting that an investigation has been launched to solve the incident.
Neither group has claimed responsibility for the attack, although the formation usually behind these types of attacks is the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, which has been the number one threat to stability in Iraq since the Taliban returned to power in August Afghanistan has turned 15.
A few hours ago, the Islamists’ foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, had a telephone conversation with the US representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, and the country’s special envoy for women’s affairs, Rina Amiri.
“We have achieved successes in many areas: we guarantee security, we have defeated Daesh (the acronym for IS in Arabic), and no one will be able to use Afghanistan’s soil against others,” Muttaqi said, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman , Abdul Qahar Balkhi on Sunday. .
The Foreign Minister’s statement collides with the reality of the past few months in Afghanistan, during which there have been attacks in the country, primarily on mosques and educational centers, many of which are frequented by the Shiite Hazara minority.
In April alone, coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan, there were several attacks in various parts of the country, killing around 50 and injuring more than a hundred. EFE
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