Afghan capital hit by assaults close to ex-PM Hekmatyar’s workplace, Pakistan Embassy By Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) -One individual was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb assault close to the Kabul workplace of the Hezb-e-Islami get together, former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, stated, the identical day as an obvious failed assassination try on the Pakistan Embassy.

A number of attackers had been killed and several other guards injured within the suicide bomb assault, based on three Hezb-e-Islami sources and one supply with the ruling Taliban.

Occasion chief Hekmatyar stated in a video assertion that one individual had been killed and two injured.

“I guarantee my countrymen, a failed try occurred right here by those that have accomplished it many occasions however have failed,” Hekmatyar stated, including it was not but clear who was behind the assault.

“It can’t decrease our morale or our resistance… we are going to stand with our nation,” he stated.

Kabul police and the inside ministry didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

Pakistan’s international workplace stated its embassy in Kabul had come beneath assault focusing on the top of mission, Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani, who escaped unscathed whereas a guard was critically injured. Taliban authorities didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.

Nizamani arrived in Kabul final month to take up the position at one of many few embassies that had remained operational all through the interval after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021.

The assault on the Hezb-e-Islami get together workplace occurred close to a mosque the place senior get together leaders current had been unharmed, based on the get together assertion.

One Taliban and one get together supply stated a car belonging to the attackers and filled with explosives had detonated close to the workplace. Firing befell and two attackers had been killed whereas making an attempt to enter the mosque, they stated.

Hekmatyar stated the attackers had been carrying suicide explosive vests and that one was carrying a girl’s burqa.

A number of bombing and taking pictures assaults have taken place in Afghanistan in current months, a few of which have been claimed by Islamic State militants. A blast at a madrassa on Wednesday in northern Afghanistan killed at the least 15 individuals.

The hardline Islamist Taliban, who seized energy after U.S.-led international forces withdrew in August 2021, have stated they’re targeted on securing the nation.

Hekmatyar based Hezb-e-Islami within the mid-Nineteen Seventies as one of many major mujahideen teams combating the Eighties Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from its base in Pakistan. He held the workplace of prime minister twice in the course of the Nineties.