By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

It seems terrorists are having a free rein in Afghanistan to kill people at will, especially those engaged in worship at mosques, without being arrested or brought to justice for their crimes against humanity.
Last Friday it was the dastardly bomb blast at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the city of Qunduz in eastern Afghanistan that martyred over a hundred worshippers and left hundred-and-fifty others suffering various degrees of injuries.
This Friday, the cowardly purveyors of takfiri terrorism triggered blasts at the Imam Bargah Mosque in the southern city of Qandahar to martyr around fifty worshippers (so far) and injure scores of others.
In both cases, the targets of terrorism were places of worshippers frequented by Muslims who are known as Shi’a for their adherence to the jurisprudential school of Prophet Muhammad’s (SAWA) Immaculate Ahl al-Bayt – a term used by the Holy Qur’an to describe the pristine purity of the Messenger of Mercy’s immediate family.
Incidentally the latest blasts occurred in the city where the leadership of the Taliban militia, which recently seized power in Kabul, is centred.
We don’t believe in the official version that the two blasts were suicide attacks, because of the simple fact that terrorists are too timid by nature to blow themselves to bits.
These so-called suicide attacks are actually remote controlled blasts in which some unsuspecting simpletons are used by terrorists to carry explosive kits or have explosive belts strapped around bodies on the pretext of medical vests for easing bodily pains.
This tactics was widely practiced by the macabrely murderous Daesh terrorists, with the full backing of their creators the Americans and the Zionists, in Syria and Iraq, until these cowards were decisively defeated, and most of them transferred by the US to Afghanistan in order to further destabilize the landlocked country that shares borders with Iran, Pakistan, China, and the Central Asian former Soviet republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The questions that arise are: “Do the Taliban approve these acts of terrorism against Muslim compatriots belonging to another ethnic group and adhering to a different version of Islamic jurisprudent?
If not, why did the ruling militia disarm and disband the Shi’a Hazara security guards who used to thoroughly check visitors in order to stop terrorist infiltrators?
Also, why no action was taken against the Daesh terrorists following the Qunduz Mosque blast last week, despite the assurances of Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid who had promised to track down and punish the perpetrators?
Now, after another act of terrorism, more loss of innocent life, and desecration of the sanctity of yet a second place of worship, Zabihullah Mujahid has repeated the same phrase: “We condemn these attacks and the perpetrators would be brought to justice!!!
Should Hazaras and the Shi’a citizens of Afghanistan, or for that matter the other ethnic and religious groups, such as the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, the Aymaqs, the Sunni and Ismaili Muslims, trust their new rulers who are stubbornly sticking to a factional cabinet by refusing to form an all-inclusive government representing all Afghan people?
The world, especially the Muslim Ummah is waiting for answers to these and other questions for the sake of the unity and stability of Afghanistan which ought to be a sovereign independent country, with full security for the rights of all citizens, instead of passing from one occupation to another occupation.