Pakistan Will Not Deport Former Afghan Intel Officers

On Tuesday evening, a passenger bus was the target of an explosion in the Mehtab Qala area of Dashte Barchi in Kabul city. The Taliban said that at least seven people were killed and 20 others were injured in the attack.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

On Wednesday, referring to the explosion, the AFF said that it is a continuation of "targeted attacks" on Afghan citizens, which are carried out for religious and ethnic reasons.

The statement mentioned that two explosions in the Dashte Barchi area in less than two weeks indicate the Taliban's reluctance to secure vulnerable areas due to ethnic and religious prejudices.

AFF said that the Taliban's fight against ISIS is "propaganda and aimed at deceiving the international community in order to obtain financial benefits”.

In the statement, it said that "targeted attacks on the Hazara and Shia communities of Afghanistan are carried out in close collusion with circles inside the Taliban”.

AFF has that the “killing of Hazaras under the guise of ISIS is a part of the Taliban's strategy to promote religious intolerance against fellow Shiites. This can be verified through the sermons of mullahs associated with the Haqqani network and other missionaries of the group”.

On October 26, an explosion rocked a sports club, as a result, at least four people were killed and nearly 10 were injured. ISIS also took responsibility for that attack.

Meanwhile, the National Resistance Council for Salvation of Afghanistan, referring to the attack in Dashte Barchi, said that the incident and similar events are the result of several factions among the Taliban and the group’s hosting of other terrorist groups.

In a statement, the council expressed that the Taliban has been responsible for insecurity and instability in Afghanistan, the region, and the world through “terrorist” attacks over the past two decades.

It added that the Taliban's claim to provide security is "public deception".

The council said that the Taliban have turned Afghanistan into a safe place for terrorists.

AFF and the National Resistance Council are political and military groups opposing the Taliban. These two fronts were created by several political leaders and military officials of the former Afghan government after the Taliban regained control of the country in late 2021.

Bennett described the recent explosion of a passenger vehicle in Dashte Barchi area in District 13 of Kabul city as “terrible” and said that the ones behind the attack should be held accountable.

At least seven people were killed and 20 were injured in the bomb explosion on a passenger bus in Dashte Barchi on Tuesday evening.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the past month, this is the third explosion in Dashte Barchi area of Kabul. On October 26, an explosion rocked a sports club, as a result, at least four people were killed and nearly 10 were injured.

On X social media platform, Zadran wrote that the group's forces have been investigating the attack.

Local sources said that the explosion occurred on Tuesday evening, November 7, in the "Mahtab Qala" area located in the west of Kabul. According to eyewitnesses, a passenger vehicle was the target of the explosion.

In the last two weeks, this is the second explosion in Dashte Barchi area. On Thursday evening, October 26, an explosion rocked in a sports club, as a result, at least four people were killed and nearly 10 were injured.

ISIS had claimed responsibility for the explosion.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported on Tuesday that the extracted coal is being sold to the traders.

As per the report, the Taliban has officially registered 31 government-owned coal mines and 128 non-government mines in the northern provinces.

Last year, the Taliban had announced that by increasing the extraction and export of coal, the group would provide for 10 percent of Pakistan's daily coal demands.

Afghanistan's coal is considered one of the cheapest ways of supplying fossil energy to Pakistan.

Critics have condemned the unprofessional and indiscriminate extraction of coal in the central and northern regions of Afghanistan and its cheap export to Pakistan as a kind of "looting" of Afghanistan's underground reserves.

During a meeting in Tashkent on Tuesday, Sysoev called Afghanistan a source of "one of the special concerns".

The 9th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure was held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

According to TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies, in this meeting, Sysoev considered the ethnic and religious prejudices and the "Pashtunisation of the political elites" of Afghanistan as one of the current challenges of the country.

He also said that although the Taliban has declared a fight against terrorism, it cannot cope with the increasing influence and capabilities of the Khorasan branch of ISIS.

Sysoev stated that there are approximately 6,000 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan, emphasising that all of them pose a direct threat to Central Asian countries.