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PakistanThe Interior Minister said this on Thursday Afghan Civilians carried out two deadly suicide attacks this week – one targeting a cadet college near the Afghan border and the other outside a court in the capital, islamabad,
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said, “Afghan civilians were involved in both suicide bombings and carried out the attacks.”
There was no immediate comment from Kabul,
A suicide bomb blast took place outside a district court on Tuesday islamabad 12 people died and 27 others were injured. Separately on Monday, three soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber and four other militants tried to attack Cadet College Wana in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, triggering a gunfight.
The attacks have underlined Pakistan’s deteriorating security situation as the government faces a growing insurgency and strained relations Kabul And a fragile ceasefire on the border. Until Tuesday’s attack, the capital was considered largely safe compared to the country’s conflict-hit northwest.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif On Wednesday, Afghanistan’s Taliban government was offered fresh talks on a peace proposal. His call in a televised speech on Wednesday followed the collapse of peace talks istanbul Last week. This led to fears that the ceasefire had been brokered Queue And turkey This may resolve and new skirmishes may start on the border.
Pakistan Wants Afghanistan to rein in the Pakistani Taliban – known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which has claimed most attacks in Pakistan in recent years. The group has distanced itself from the latest attacks and said it was not behind them.
Pakistan has long been accusing the Afghan Taliban of harboring TTP leaders and fighters, a charge Kabul has denied. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of the TTP, initially claimed responsibility for the Islamabad bombing, but one of its commanders withdrew the statement.
The Pakistani army on Thursday took journalists from Islamabad to the Cadet College, which showed clear signs of an attack.
Pakistan Information Minister Ataullah Tarar said on Wednesday that all five attackers in the attack on Cadet College Wana were killed by security forces. He told reporters that more than 600 people, including 525 cadets, their teachers and staff, were rescued safely.
Tarar said it appeared the attackers were trying to repeat what happened in 2014. Peshawar School massacre, when a TTP splinter group killed 154 people, mostly children, at a military-run school.
According to local media, authorities have arrested some suspects for questioning in connection with the Islamabad attack and detained people in several raids.
Pakistan’s Information Ministry said that the attack on the cadet college was planned from Afghanistan and was carried out by Afghan civilians using weapons supplied from there. In a post on Twitter, the ministry said the attack was carried out by a terrorist named Zahid, with the approval of TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud.
The ministry said the attackers used “American-made” weapons brought from Afghanistan. Pakistan has repeatedly said that US military equipment left behind during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 has fallen into terrorist hands and ultimately reached the Pakistani Taliban, strengthening the group’s firepower.
Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen since last month, when Afghanistan accused Islamabad of carrying out a drone strike on October 0 that killed several people in the Afghan capital. The attacks led to cross-border clashes that left dozens of soldiers, civilians and militants dead, before Qatar implemented a ceasefire on October 19.
Two subsequent rounds of peace talks in Istanbul ended without progress after Kabul refused to give written assurances that militants would not use Afghan soil for attacks in Pakistan.
The TTP, which is separate from but affiliated with the Afghan Taliban, has been emboldened since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.