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24-04-2021
By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report
KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Dozens more Shia people have been killed in Afghanistan during ‘present’ ongoing target killing wave while thirteen (13) others have ether kidnapped or abducted for ransom or slaughtering including five young Shia girls, sources told PMI.
According to the reports 14 Shia and 5 non-Shia people were either dead during targeted operations or slaughtered in Taliban’s attacks across three Afghan provinces in the last 24 hours as violent conflict continues in the country despite continuing peace efforts.
In capital Kabul, unknown gunmen killed four policemen, a university professor, a doctor and a government employee in three separate incidents, police spokesman Ferdows Faramarz said on Saturday.
Two of the incidents happened on Saturday while the third one took place on Friday late night, according to the police.
Targeted killings are on the rise in Kabul where security forces, government employees, activists, and journalists are often the targets.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the majority of the attacks happening in the Afghan capital but the independent sources and the victims told PMI on anonymity conditions either the Taliban or the anti-Shia groups are directly or indirectly involved in ‘Shia Target Killing’.
In the country’s southeastern Ghazni province, at least four civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast, local officials said.
Two other civilians were wounded when the bomb hit their vehicle as they drove in the provincial capital, the governor’s spokesman Wahidullah Jumazada said.
In southern Kandahar province, at least four civilians were killed on Friday afternoon and three wounded when another roadside bomb in Arghandab district exploded, provincial police spokesman Jamal Barakzai told media.
Local officials blamed the Taliban for the explosion, but no group has claimed responsibility.
Civilian casualties in the country rose 29 percent in the first quarter of the year, the United Nations said in a report last week, with 573 Afghan civilians killed and 1,210 wounded while the majority of dead and injured was Shia among them.
“Of particular concern is the 37 percent increase in the number of women killed and injured, and a 23 percent increase in child casualties compared with the first quarter of 2020,” according to the report.
The Taliban had earlier refused to attend any peace summits until all foreign forces were pulled out of Afghanistan.
The Taliban and the United States last year agreed that all foreign forces would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by May 1, a date that was pushed back last week by US President Joe Biden.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when they were removed by US-led forces.
Since then, they have waged a long-running armed uprising and still control swaths of territory.
Earlier, sources updated PMI regarding the Shia target killing in Pakistan and confront if anyone individually or as an institute or authority, terrorist group or organization, media outlet or journalist, LEA even regime across the globe deny that the Shia Target Killing including Shia young girls and women is not only still continued since last thirty years but also remained unreported while the Pakistani present and former governments and all other concerned authorities and LEAs have been reporting fake, incorrect and opposite the reality then he or she or they would be awarded one billion US dollar cash reward, sources further advised “to all” about their coverage that one should not be imagined to deny even don’t think to change the coma or full stop of their reporting otherwise he/ she or they would have to face dire consequences at their end.
