Rise in violent incidents meant to derail Afghanistan Peace Process, says ISPR
September 10, 2020
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Thursday that the rise in "violent incidents on both sides of Pak-Afghan border" is meant to derail the Afghanistan Peace Process, vowing that both countries will defeat all spoilers.
Taking to Twitter, the ISPR said: "[The] unfortunate rise in violent incidents on both sides of [the] Pak-Afghan border is meant to derail Afghanistan Peace Process."
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"Pakistan earnestly believes that both countries deserve peace and progress. Together we will defeat all spoilers," it added.
Prospects of peace in Afghanistan after 19 long years of war brightened last month when Kabul started releasing 400 Taliban prisoners who were described by President Ashraf Ghani as a "danger to the world".
The Afghan government and the Taliban are set to meet within days of the prisoner release being completed, in a move that has drawn widespread condemnation after it emerged many of the inmates were involved in attacks that killed scores of Afghans and foreigners.
Roadside bomb attack misses Afghan vice president
A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The attack killed at least 10 people.
The Taliban denied involvement in the attack, which comes just ahead of long-awaited peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Qatar’s capital Doha.
“Today, once again the enemy of Afghanistan tried to harm Saleh, but they failed in their evil aim, and Saleh escaped the attack unharmed,” Razwan Murad, a spokesman for Saleh’s office, wrote on Facebook.
He told Reuters the bomb targeted Saleh’s convoy and some of his bodyguards were injured.
Saleh appeared in a video on his social media accounts soon after, saying he had sustained a minor burn on his face and an injury to his hand in the attack.
