Afghanistan blamed Pakistan, its longtime regional nemesis for “organising and orchestrating” Wednesday’s attack on the American University in Kabul that left at least 13 dead and 36 injured, in an official statement from Presidential office.
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani also called Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif asking that “serious and practical measures” be taken against the terrorists involved in the attack.
In response, General Sharif allegedly promised President Ghani that the case would be “evaluated” and that he would revert back on the “taken measures”.
Condemning the “brutal attack”, President Ghani said:
Terrorist groups, by attacking civilians, educational institutions, residential areas, culverts, bridges, electricity stations... want to obstruct growth and strengthening of the values that Afghans believe in.
Explosions and gunfire rocked the campus after the attack began Wednesday evening, just weeks after two university professors – an American and an Australian – were kidnapped at gunpoint near the school.
While no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack that lasted ten hours ending when the two gunmen were killed, it occurred as the Taliban ramp up their nationwide summer offensive against the Western-backed government.
(With PTI inputs)
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