New Delhi: The deadly suicide bombing in Kabul on Thursday marked one of the most fatal attacks in Afghanistan which the world has ever seen.
A day after the Kabul terror attack, U.S President Biden was told by his top security advisors that more terrorist attacks are likely as the deadline for US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan draws near.
According to the White House, the next few days of an ongoing US evacuation operation are likely to be dangerous as the US military forces continue the evacuation of their citizens and vulnerable Afghans aftermath of the Kabul terror attack.
With the deadline for US troop’s withdrawal from Afghanistan inching closer, there are questions as to what will happen after that.
Speaking to ETV Bharat, Dr Suvro Kamal Dutta, a political thinker and foreign policy expert, said, “There is possibility that the deadline for withdrawal will be extended.
With the completion of the drawdown, the world might witness Afghanistan heading for wider bloodshed after 31 August and there might be direct arms collision between the Western forces and Taliban”.
Dutta said Afghanistan is sitting over a dangerous terror volcano. If not checked now by the international community, it can lead to catastrophic consequences across the globe.
Following the devastating suicide bombing, U.S President Joe Biden has said America will not forgive the terrorists and that the US will hunt them down and make them pay for their misdeeds.
More than 169 Afghan nationals and 13 U.S service members lost their lives in the deadly twin explosions in Kabul airport.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, 28 August, in retaliation to the terrorist attack, U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner.
The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that they killed the target and there are no civilian casualties, according to U.S Central Command Spokesman.
President Biden has laid the responsibility of Thursday’s bombing on ISIS-K (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan) extremist group which is an enemy both to the West and to Afghanistan’s Taliban.
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Dr Dutta further said, “The United States should realize that besides taking head-on the splinter groups, it needs to take Taliban to task and President Biden giving a clean chit to Taliban on the Kabul bomb blast incident exposes his ignorance over reality”.
America is realizing its follies and there is nothing called a bad or good terrorist. ISIS-K, Haqqani network, the Taliban has complete internal nexus with each other, he added.
