Afghan President blames Islamabad for deadly Kabul attacks

Rasa - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has blamed Islamabad for the recent deadly terrorist attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

News ID: 3123

Date: 12 August 2015 - 16:29

RNA - "The last few days have shown that suicide training camps and bomb-producing factories which are killing our people are as active as before in Pakistan," Ghani told a press conference on Monday.

"We hoped for peace, but we are receiving messages of war from Pakistan,” he added.

Ghani also said he had once again asked Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take serious action against the growing activities of terrorist groups in Pakistan, which directly target security and stability in neighboring Afghanistan.

"In my telephone call with Pakistan prime minister (on Sunday), I told Pakistan to see terrorism in Afghanistan the same way it sees terrorism in Pakistan," he said.

"I ask the Pakistani government if the mass killings of Shah Shaheed had happened in Islamabad and the perpetrators were in Afghanistan, what would you do?” he added, referring to a neighborhood in Kabul, which was the target of a bomb attack on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Taliban militant group claimed responsibility for Monday’s bomb blast near Kabul’s international airport, which left five people dead.

As recently as Friday, a string of deadly terrorist attacks struck the US military base of Camp Integrity, an army compound and an Afghan police academy. A total of 51 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured in the triple attacks.

The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 with the stated aim of rooting out the then ruling Taliban government and restoring security.

Thirteen years on, insecurity continues to haunt the war-ravaged country.

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