WASHINGTON: The United States urged Pakistan to expel Taliban leaders following the deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Afghanistan’s capital city that left five dead and six others injured, the White House said in a statement Monday night.
The leaders of the terrorist outfit need to be banned from operating on Pakistani soil, it said in a statement disclosed by press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
At least five people were killed and six injured after gunmen attacked Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel Saturday night, seizing hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces as the building in the Afghan capital caught fire and residents and staff fled.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said Sunday morning the operation to rescue the hostages has completed, with 126 hostages — of which 41 were foreigners — rescued.
Najib Danish — the ministry’s spokesperson — said all five attackers were killed in the operation.
On Sunday, Pakistan’s foreign office had rejected “knee-jerk allegations” by some Afghan circles of the Kabul attack.
In a tweet, Dr Mohammad Faisal — the spokesperson for the Foreign Office — stated that there was a need for a credible investigation into the attack, including one on the security lapses.
In a press statement issued earlier, the Foreign Office had condemned the brutal attack, saying, “We express deep grief and sorrow at the loss of precious human lives and the injuring of many others in this terrorist act.”
The statement further read that cooperation among the states is important for effectively combating and eliminating the scourge of terrorism.
Afghanistan must arrest or expel TTP leader from its soil. Afghanistan will continue to face terrorism if it continues to shelter terrorists because terrorists are friends with no one and good terrorists of Afghanistan will find Kabul more attractive
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50% of Afghanistan territory is controlled by Taliban. They don’t need Pakistan area to seek shelter and hide there. Tabilans are all in Afghanistan and operating from there. India was most likely involved in this attack and using US to blame Pakistan.
First we should remove our armies from afghanistan, then from iraq – whilst doing so we shoud ston kn the way to every home and apologise for years of torture rape and massacres our tyrranical countey has inflicted upon those countries, bearing in kind the same countries were fsr more peaceful under the regimes of saddam and mullah omar. Further more, we should admit – in public that no iraqi or afghan has harmed a hair on an americans head until we invaded their countries. Then, and only then can we make demands pakistan. Until then pakistan have the moral high ground and obviously no reason to trust or listen to a terrorist colonial state such as ourselves.
I mean, it shiuld be enugh for the world to have witnessed first hand what we did to our indeginous population of red indians ( nationwide extinction so we could rule the land ) but now we have to take the same expansionist agressive colonial terrorist mindset to countries who have never even heard of or are able to spell our name, or point out america on a map. I re iterate no afghan no iraqi has harmed any american before or after 9/11. Until we invaded their homes, burned their villages. Raped their women. Murdered and improsened their men. Burned their children alive. Stole thier oil gold natural resources. Yes, this is the democracy america wishes to bring to your lands. Yet we have the nerve the audacity to accuse Pakistan of playing games. Really, our ignorance can only be matched by our arrogance. But this is the final hurrah, before the fall. America will go down with the british empire moghuls egyptians romans alexandder the great genghis khan etc. People will history read books of our evil deeds.
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