Thu 09 March 2023:
The governor of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Balkh province was killed in a blast at his office on Thursday (March 9). Speaking to the news agency AFP, Asif Waziri said the governor Mohammad Dawood Muzammil and three other persons were killed in the explosion. Taliban government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that Muzammil was martyred in an explosion by the enemies of Islam.
Muzammil’s death comes a day after he met two deputy prime ministers and other senior officials visiting Balkh to review a major irrigation project in northern Afghanistan, a government statement said, AFP reported.
Violence across Afghanistan has dramatically dropped since the Taliban came to power. However, the security situation in the war-torn country has again deteriorated with the Islamic State claiming several deadly attacks.
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The ISIL has emerged as the biggest security challenge to the Taliban government since last year, carrying out attacks against Afghan civilians as well as foreigners and foreign interests.
ISIL says it is fighting to establish a global Islamic “caliphate” instead of the Taliban’s more inward-looking goal of ruling an independent Afghanistan.
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Several attacks have rocked the Balkh province, some claimed by the Islamic State. In December last year, a roadside bomb killed seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in Mazar-i-Sharif city of the province. Also in December, 19 people were killed and 24 injured by a blast at a madrassa in Aybak, southeast of the city.
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