By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Friday’s dastardly bomb blast in a mosque in Qunduz (by whichever terrorist outfit it might have been carried out), that left some hundred Friday Prayer worshippers martyred and over a hundred-and-fifty others injured, has once again proved the inability of the new Taliban militia rulers in maintaining public security in Afghanistan.
The attack came hours after Zabiullah Mujahid. Taliban spokesman and Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, said: “We don’t call Daesh a threat, but we call it a headache.”
We are not surprised by the comments, especially since the victims were Shi’a Muslims mostly belonging to the Hazara ethnic group – both of which were severely persecuted during the Taliban rule prior to the US occupation of the country in 2001.
It should be noted that the latest act of terrorism comes on the heels of a Daesh attack on a mosque in Kabul that fortunately left a few casualties, as well as following the forced eviction and gunning down in cold blood of 9 members of the Hazara community in Daikundi by Taliban militiamen.
Do these crimes against humanity mean the new rulers in Kabul tacitly support such acts of terrorism?
The answer should be provided by the Taliban rulers themselves, which in the first place did not allow Hazara Shi’a community members in Qunduz to carry arms as usual, for ensuring the security of worshippers against possible acts of terrorism.
Secondly, mere words of sympathy for bereaved families and vague assurances to bring the culprits to justice, by the Taliban interim cabinet that neither contains a member of any other ethnic group nor a Shi’a Muslim from amongst the 25- percent strong community, does not bode well for Afghanistan’s unity, security and stability.
The best solution is to form an all-inclusive cabinet representing the various ethnic, political, and religious groups that make up Afghanistan, and to allow the local community officials to maintain security at mosques, husseiniyahs, schools, hospitals, and other public places, instead of assigning Taliban gunmen as security guards, when most of them unsympathetic, if not inimical, to other ethnic groups and Shi’a Muslims.
Daesh is a macabrely murderous outfit of beasts in human form, which is the creation of the US and Israel, and their blood-curdling acts in Syria and Iraq, until they were routed, are permanent blots on humanity.
To treat such bestial American and Zionist agents as a “headache” and not a “threat”, is either naivety on the part of the new rulers, or tacit support for their crimes.
In the words of the President Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic of Iran: “It is no secret to anyone that the growth of this Takfiri terrorist movement has taken place with the supports and plans of the US. The United States has facilitated further activities of Daesh criminals in Afghanistan and prevented their eradication.”
He added that recent terrorist act in Qunduz is aimed at sowing discord among Muslims and is committed by those whose “inhumane and anti-religion nature is obvious to everyone.”
In view of these facts, we hope that the Taliban which claim to have changed their earlier brutal behaviour, will take practical measures to prove their sincerity by seriously hunting down the Daesh terrorists until they are wiped out, and forming a broad-based national government representing all sections of the polyglot society of Afghanistan.