Moscow Won’t Criticize Taliban, Says Kabulov During Kabul Visit

The report listed some attacks over 2022, which the ISKP had claimed responsibility for in 2022, including on April 19, when a suicide bomber blew himself at a high school in Dasht-e Barchi, west Kabul, a predominantly Hazara and Shia area, which killed or injured 20 students, teachers, and staff.

“ISKP also claimed responsibility for an attack two days later at Seh Dokan Mosque in Mazar e Sharif that killed 31 people and wounded 87 others. On April 27, unidentified gunmen killed five Hazara men on their way to the Dare-Suf coal mine in Samangan. On September 30, an attack on an educational center in west Kabul, again a Hazara dominated area, killed 53 and injured 100 students, mostly women and girls,” the report stated.

The report emphasised that the Taliban’s failure to provide security to at-risk populations and medical and other assistance to survivors and affected families has exacerbated the harm caused by the attacks.

HRW said that the attacks exacted a severe long-term toll apart from the immediate impact as it deprived survivors and families of victims of breadwinners, often imposing severe medical burdens, and restricting their access to daily life.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack which killed and wounded around 20 people on Wednesday.

Fazal Ahmed Manawi, the former Minister of Justice in Afghanistan, also said that the Taliban is a promoter of suicide terrorism in Afghanistan and that the group owns special suicide terror units.

Manawi added, "I am sure that the sedition that the Taliban have created will cost them their lives."

Meanwhile, Fawzia Kofi, a former member of the Afghan parliament, said that Afghanistan is in a situation where no one takes responsibility.

However, many social media users have expressed sympathy for the victims of the attack and have said that the Taliban is responsible for suicide terrorism.

In the past year and a half, attacks on the Taliban, which have been usually claimed by the ISIS, have not met with many reactions from Afghan citizens.

However, Wednesday's attack, in which most of the victims have been civilians and employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received a wide range of reactions from Afghans. With the fall of the previous Afghan government, many employees of government institutions continued their government jobs.

She stressed that it is important to know what measures will be taken to prevent another attack.

Decker condemned the attack and said that Afghan citizens and foreign guests alike need be able to count on effective security.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in Kabul.

According to reports, at least 20 people had died, and dozens had been injured in the attack on Wednesday.

The emergency hospital in Kabul announced that 40 wounded from this attack were transferred to this hospital.

The Taliban, however, confirmed that only five died in the attack. The suicide attack took place when the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were leaving the compound.

Sources in the Taliban's foreign ministry told Afghanistan International that the explosion took place when a Chinese delegation was meeting with officials of the group.

Khalid Zadran, the spokesman of the Taliban police in Kabul, said that the explosion took place at 4:00 pm local time.

Ahmadullah Mottaqi, brother of Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaqi, said on Twitter that a suicide attack took place in front of the foreign ministry.

Agence France-Presse reported that this explosion was a suicide attack, as a result of which around twenty people have been killed and wounded.

So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the blast.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban is in proximity to the presidential palace of Afghanistan from where the Taliban prime minister operates.

The images of the scene of the explosion published on social media depict a number of people injured on the streets.

Taliban officials have not yet commented on the nature of the explosion and the casualties caused due to it.

This explosion took place on Wednesday afternoon local time, and no group has claimed responsibility for it.