Received 47 Victims, Including 3 Dead, Says Emergency Hospital in Kabul

Kabulov has also reportedly said that Moscow wants stability and development in Afghanistan.

The Taliban foreign minister has appreciated Moscow’s cooperation with the group over the past year.

During the meeting, Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, asked for the expansion of the diplomatic presence of the group in Moscow.

Last year, the Taliban sent a diplomat to Moscow to work as the Charge d'Affaires of the Afghan embassy in Russia.

The Taliban, which has close relations with Russia, also wants to expand trade relations with the country. According to the Taliban foreign ministry, Muttaqi has also discussed the expansion of trade relations between Russia and Afghanistan.

Kabulov has also stressed that Russia does not want Afghanistan to be isolated and continues to cooperate with the Taliban.

This is the second visit of Zamir Kabulov to Kabul since the Taliban came to power in August 2021.

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.