KABUL (Reuters) – One person was killed and two people were injured in Kabul on Friday in a suicide bombing near the Hezb-e-Islami party headquarters, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said as a guard was injured in another attack on the Pakistani embassy.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif denounced this latest attack on Twitter, referring to an “assassination attempt” against the head of the diplomatic mission, who is unharmed.
A Kabul police spokesman said the embassy was targeted from a nearby building. A suspect was arrested and two weapons were seized, he said.
Regarding the suicide attack near Hezb-e-Islami premises, three sources within the party and a source close to the Taliban said that several assailants were killed and several guards injured in the attack.
It was impossible to immediately determine the origin of these two attacks, which occur only a few days after the visit to Kabul of the Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs in order to ease tensions along the border between the two countries.
The Taliban say they are focusing on the security of the country after their return to power more than a year ago, but numerous attacks have taken place recently, some of which have been claimed by the Islamic State group.
On Wednesday, an explosion at a Koranic school in the town of Aybak, located in Samangan province, in northern Afghanistan, killed at least 15 people.
(Report Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Syed Hassib and Jibran Ahmad, written by Charlotte Greenfield, French version Lina Golovnya, edited by Blandine Hénault and Sophie Louet)
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