Attacker on Pakistan Embassy arrested, says Mujahid

KABUL (Pajhwok): Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) spokesman ZabihullahMujahid on Monday said a Daesh or Islamic State affiliate who fired at the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul on Friday has been arrested.

Mujahid wrote on his Twitter page: “This person is a citizen of a foreign country and a member of the Daesh group. The investigation revealed that this attack was jointly organized by the Daesh and rebels”.

Without naming any, he wrote some foreign groups were behind the attack and the aim was to create distrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Mujahid said further investigations were underway regarding the said attack.

Pakistan on Sunday said it was verifying reports about the militant Islamic State group’s claim that it had carried out attack on the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul.

On Friday, Pakistan said there was an armed attack on its embassy in Kabul with charge d’affairs Ubaidullah Nizamani being targeted. Nizamani was unscathed but his guard was critically injured.

IS claimed the attack was carried out by two of its members armed with “medium and sniper weapons” and was targeting the ambassador and his guards who were present in the courtyard of the embassy, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, an official US report to Congress has expressed doubts about the Taliban’s ability to counter IS.

“Experts disagree about the potency of the ISKP threat and the Taliban’s self-asserted ability to counter the group without external assistance,” says the report sent this week to Congress by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

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