Islamic State claims responsibility for suicidal blast on Hindu-Sikh minorities in Afghanistan.

Even then majority Hindu-Sikh people thinks Muslims are good…. They always find the scope to annihilate the Kafirs…

19 dead, 20 injured in suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad; Hindus, Sikhs among those killed.

Upender Singh Kakkar | HENB | Jalalabad | July 1, 2018::  A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs, officials said on Sunday, in the latest violence to rock the country. The attacker struck a market located hundreds of metres from the provincial governor’s compound where Ghani was holding meetings, governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP+.

Among the 19 dead were 15 Sikhs and 4 Hindus, the sources confirmed. Another 20 people were wounded.

There were scenes of anguish at the hospital where grieving relatives wept and hugged each other as they waited for news of their loved ones. “It is over for us, we are finished, they have massacred us, at least 10 of us,” a man told AFP, too upset to give his name. Provincial health director Najibullah Kamawal confirmed 19 people had been killed, the majority of them Sikhs.

Small communities of Sikhs and Hindus reside in what is otherwise an overwhelmingly Muslim nation. It is not clear if they were the intended target of the attack. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed a suicide bomber carried out the attack, the latest in a series of recent deadly assaults in the restive province. Ghani’s spokesman said the president was still in Nangarhar but was “away from danger”.

Afghan President Ghani arrived in Jalalabad earlier today to open a hospital, part of a two-day visit to the province bordering Pakistan.

The attack came a day after Ghani ordered Afghan security forces to resume offensive operations against the Taliban following the expiration of the government’s 18-day ceasefire. The government’s unilateral truce overlapped with the Taliban’s three-day ceasefire for Eid, but the militants refused to prolong it. The unprecedented ceasefire over the holiday capping Ramadan triggered spontaneous street celebrations involving Taliban fighters, security forces, and war-weary civilians.

But it was marred by two suicide attacks in Nangarhar that killed dozens of people and were claimed by the Islamic State group, which has a smaller but relatively potent presence in Afghanistan.

Islamic State was not part of the ceasefire. The attack comes as US envoy Alice Wells visits Kabul as part of efforts to ratchet up pressure on the Taliban to engage in peace talks.

The Taliban have so far ignored Ghani’s offer of peace negotiations. Instead, they have insisted on direct talks with the United States, which Washington has repeatedly refused. Wells said that since the Afghan government and the United States were willing to start talking without preconditions, the onus was now on the Taliban to respond.

“Right now it’s the Taliban leaders… who aren’t residing in Afghanistan, who are the obstacle to a negotiated political settlement,” Wells said in remarks embargoed until Sunday. Wells, who is due to hold talks in Pakistan on Monday, said Islamabad also needed to do more to squeeze the Taliban and get them to the negotiating table. “Pakistan has an important role to play… but we have not yet seen that sustained and decisive action on the part of Islamabad,” she said.

The Indian embassy in Kabul condemned the “cowardly terrorist” attack.

It confirmed that Awtar Singh Khalsa, the only Sikh candidate running in the 20 October elections, was among the dead.

Hindu and Sikh leaders in India condemned the barbaric Jihadi attacks on minority Hindu and Sikh community in Afghanistan.

The Islamic State (IS) group said it carried out the attack, BBC+ reports.

As per record, there was around 2.25 lakh Hindu and Sikh people even in 1980. It came down to 15,000 around 1990 due to Talibani and Mujaheddin torture. Presently, the existing 1300 Hindus and Sikhs are being targeted by the Jihadi extremists to make Afghanisatn a Hindu-Sikh free state according to Sharia norms and diktats.

Even then majority Hindu-Sikh people thinks Muslims are good. Always they find the scope to annihilate the Kafirs.

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__inputs from AFP /BBC/ Dainik Savera.

2 comments on “Islamic State claims responsibility for suicidal blast on Hindu-Sikh minorities in Afghanistan.”

1. Arindam.

   July 5, 2018

   

   For ‘Islamic State’, read ‘Pakistan’.

   The current Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, has bent backwards in trying to appease Islamabad – and has been rewarded, unsurprisingly, with ongoing and unrelenting bloodshed.

   Anyone with an iota of intelligence should realize by now that peace with Pakistan is neither possible nor desirable.

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2. Ranga Reddy

   July 6, 2018

   

   The Foundation of Pakistan is the Quest for Unfinished Jihad of the past 1306 years. Jihad as foundation of Islam is Adharma. Pakistan has to be eliminated as a source of fanatic jihad. Even then , without eliminating the ideology of ISLAM, the Violence , Genocides and Rapes will Continue.

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