Taliban: Int'l community should condemn Kabul airport bombings as 'terrorism'
The Taliban said on Thursday the explosions at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan were terrorist attacks, which should be condemned globally.
At least three blasts occurred at Kabul airport on Thursday evening. The toll of casualties counts dozens killed and hundreds injured.
“Attacks on innocent civilians...
The Taliban said on Thursday the explosions at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan were terrorist attacks, which should be condemned globally.
At least three blasts occurred at Kabul airport on Thursday evening. The toll of casualties counts dozens killed and hundreds injured.
“Attacks on innocent civilians are an act of terrorism that must be condemned by the whole world,” said Taliban spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi, as quoted by Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik.
Qahar was speaking to Turkey's Haberturk TV and vowed that “once the situation at the airport returns to normal and foreign troops leave Afghanistan, there will be no more attacks like this.”
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai also decried the attacks as a crime against humanity, calling on Afghans for solidarity and unity.
After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan on Aug 15, many countries began evacuating their citizens, diplomats, and Afghans who had worked for them.
Foreign troops are under pressure to wrap up evacuation by Aug 31, as the Taliban warned they would not allow departures after that date.
- Bernama
