Taliban say suicide bombing in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19

Taliban speak self-destruction bombing inside Shiite area of Kabul kills 19

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A self-destruction bomber struck an education center inside a Shiite area of the Afghan first city on Friday, killing 19 people with every one other accompanied by wounding 27, a Taliban-appointed spokesperson for the Kabul police leader said.

The detonation inside the center inside the Dashti Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul — populated mostly by members of Afghanistan's minority Shiite population — took place inside the earlier to noon hours, said the spokesman, Khalid Zadran.

The victims included high educational organization graduates, both girls with every one other accompanied by boys, who were taking a practice college entry exam when the blast went off, Zadran said. The center is known while the Kaaj Higher Educational Center with every one other accompanied by helps students prepare with every one other accompanied by learning for college entry exams, among its activities.

Zadran said education centers inside the area will need to inquire the Taliban for additional safety when they host events accompanied by large gatherings, such while the learning prep on Friday.

One eyewitness, 19-year-old high educational organization student Shafi Akbary, had been attending the center for the past sextet months. The center had invited students to go nearer at around 6:30 a.m. on Friday for the practice exam, with every one other accompanied by Akbary said around 300 students were present.

"First, we heard the sounds of a few gunshots at the main gate. Everyone was worried with every one other accompanied by tried to sprint to a different direction. Soon following that, a enormous detonation occurred inside the center," said Akbary, speaking to The Associated Press over the phone..

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Akbary, who was unharmed inside the explosion, said he saw dozens of bodies with every one other accompanied by wounded people scattered around him. "I was so frightened with every one other accompanied by couldn't flat go myself to assist them. Later, other people ran inside with every one other accompanied by took us out," he added.

The self-destruction bombing was the latest inside a steady brook of violence since the Taliban seized power. No one straight away claimed duty for the assault

The Islamic State category — the leader competitor of the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan inside August 2021 — has inside the past targeted the Hazara community, including inside Dashti Barchi.

"Our teams have dispatched at the location of the blast to find not here additional details," Abdul Nafi Takor, a Taliban-appointed spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, said earlier.

The U.S. chargé d'affaires for Afghanistan, Karen Decker, condemned the assault inside a tweet.

"Targeting a space filled of students taking exams is shameful; all students should exist intelligent to pursue an education inside tranquillity & lacking fear," she said. "We hope for a swift recuperation for the victims & we grieve accompanied by the families of the deceased."

Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, have been the mark of a brutal military operation of violence for the past some years, blamed on the geographical affiliate of the Islamic State group. Militants have carried not here some deadly attacks inside Dashti Barchi, including a horrific 2020 assault on a maternity medical organization that killed 24 people, including newborn babies with every one other accompanied by mothers.

The United Nations children's fund said it was appalled by Friday's horrific attack, adding that violence inside or around educational establishments was never acceptable.

"This heinous take deed claimed the lives of dozens of adolescent girls with every one other accompanied by boys with every one other accompanied by severely injured numerous more," UNICEF tweeted. "Children with every one other accompanied by adolescents are not, with every one other accompanied by must never be, the mark of violence."

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Faiez reported from Islamabad.

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They demonstrate Majewski's punishment with every one other accompanied by demotion were the consequence of him actuality stopped for driving intoxicated on a U.S. air base inside Japan inside September 2001. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The documents, which were provided to the AP with every one other accompanied by independently authenticated, inside attendance yet another instance where the recorded history of Majewski's work diverges from what he has told voters while he campaigns while using his former soldierold hand status while a leading credential.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>In a statement, Majewski acknowledged that he was punished for drunken driving, though he didn't address why his military operation formerly said his demotion was the consequence of a fight. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:107424538531' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='14b98ee6b4e8ff023729a4498ade2ac0'>Hub peek embed (2022Midtermelections) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>"This mistake is now additional than 20 years old. I'm sure we've all done something while young adults that we look spine on with every one other accompanied by awe 'what was I thinking?' with every one other accompanied by I'm sure our parents with every one other accompanied by grandparents portion these sentiments," Majewski said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Since starting his military operation to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Majewski has repeatedly said he was a combat former soldierold hand who served a tour of duty under "tough" circumstances inside Afghanistan. By his own account, he on one occasion went additional than 40 days inside the country lacking a let fall due to a lack of running water. \u003c/p>\u003cp>His tale came under great scrutiny last week when the AP, citing military documents obtained into and not here of condition records requests, reported that he did not deploy to Afghanistan while he claimed, nevertheless while an alternative spent sextet months based inside Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally, where he helped cargo with every one other accompanied by unload aircraft.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The latest revelation that Majewski was demoted for drunken driving adds another wrinkle. Last week, the AP asked Majewski's military operation why his military work records showed that he was not allowed to reenlist inside the Air Force with every one other accompanied by left-hand the work following quartet years at a position that was one notch above where he started.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>At the time, his military operation said inside an email that Majewski was "in a fight inside the dormitory accompanied by another servicemember" which \"knocked his position down." His military operation added that he subsequent gained some of that position back. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The personnel records obtained by the AP build no indeed allude to of a fight. Instead, they condition that Majewski was demoted for drunken driving at Kadena Air Base inside Japan on Sept. 8, 2001. And by preference than gain his position spine — while Majewski's military operation said — the records indicated he continued to clasp the position of E-2, one notch above entry level, that he was demoted to for the relax of his operative duty. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"When you decided to obtain behind the disc of a automobile following indulging inside intoxicating liquor you brought discredit upon yourself, 733rd Air Mobility Squadron, with every one other accompanied by the Air Force," the disciplinary records state, referring to the component Majewski was assigned to at the time. "Further misconduct by you of some sort will not exist tolerated."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The three-page document details Majewski's punishment, which included a reprimand with every one other accompanied by 30 days of additional duty inside addition to the demotion. It bears Majewski's signature with every one other accompanied by shows he consulted a legal practitioner with every one other accompanied by waived his just to a court-martial. He too waived his just to appeal the punishment with every one other accompanied by requested that the document not become public, the records show. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The AP was not intelligent to obtain a "written presentation" from Majewski, which was referred to inside the disciplinary paperwork. The military operation did not respond to a appeal from the AP to provide the document. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Eric Mayer, a former West Point graduate with every one other accompanied by Army infantry officer subsequent turned military lawyer, reviewed Majewski's documents at AP's request. He said that "the all-inclusive the natural world with every one other accompanied by quality of (Majewski's) military work tin exist severely questioned simply by goodness of the fact that he got not here while a E-2 following quartet years."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Basically, his commanding officer told him while lengthy while he behaves himself for the following sextet months, he won't demote him down all the way to airman basic," Mayer said, referring to the entry-level position Majewski could have held if he got into additional trouble. Mayer too noted that Majewski was specified additional duties inside his punishment that normally involve "area beautification" with every one other accompanied by janitorial services.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In some cases, a DUI tin exist a career-ending contravention inside the military. But trio days following Majewski was pulled over, the U.S. was straight away at war following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Within months, Majewski was reassigned with every one other accompanied by deployed to Qatar, which served while the staging ground for operations inside Afghanistan, records show. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Military records show Majewski's only deployment was to Qatar. Last Friday, throughout a defiant report conference, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-afghanistan-ohio-campaigns-qatar-283e41e411aabc8df575bf46da2f7591\">he insisted that he did indeed work for inside Afghanistan\u003c/a>, though he declined to provide specifics since he said the details were "classified."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>But there is a difference in the centre of deploying to a country with every one other accompanied by touching down there. Majewski formerly said he was a "combat veteran" who deployed to Afghanistan, a word that conveys he received orders assigning him to a specific base inside the country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Majewski formerly said he could not talk over flights he says he took to Afghanistan since they were "classified."\u003c/p>\u003cp>In his statement Wednesday, he said he was aboard "outbound transport flights to forward bases with every one other accompanied by combat zones all over the Middle East, including Afghanistan" though he acknowledged that he was stationed inside Qatar.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He too described his experience joining the Air Force at the number of years 20 while fulfilling, yet challenging.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Like some young serviceman away from family inside a overseas land with every one other accompanied by with an task scheme inside continual motion, it came accompanied by periods of strain with every one other accompanied by personal challenges," Majewski said. "I lost my grandmother, who I loved extremely deeply, with every one other accompanied by it was durable work. I am pleased of my work with every one other accompanied by the experiences that made me who I am today, nevertheless I have never on one occasion claimed to have undergone a 'tough combat tour' inside Afghanistan or suggested that I was engaged inside operative firefights."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Majewski's military operation has formerly promoted him while a "combat veteran." During an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYyVPBSO8Cw&t=2691s\">August 2021 interview\u003c/a> on the One American Podcast, Majewski said that he had a "tough hour dated inside life" while serving a tour of duty inside Afghanistan. He echoed that claim inside other \u003ca href=\"https://www.mediamatters.org/war-afghanistan/seven-times-jr-majewski-claimed-media-he-deployed-afghanistan\">interviews unearthed\u003c/a> by the tolerant category Media Matters.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Majewski's claim that he couldn't talk over his forays to Afghanistan since the details were "classified" was a scarlet banner to those who inquire into cases of \"stolen valor."\u003c/p>\u003cp>"The No. 1 trope that comes not here of people when they are either fabricating a military record or, inside this case, embellishing a record is they let fall spine to, 'It's classified,'" said Ed Caffrey, a former Air Force lord sergeant who now investigates "stolen valor" cases with every one other accompanied by teaches journalism at Eastern New Mexico University. He added: "There's no indeed younger enlisted air transportation expert who was doing something so secret that 20 years subsequent it still needs to exist classified.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Majewksi's military operation declined a appeal to place the AP inside be in touch accompanied by those he served accompanied by who could vouch that he went to Afghanistan. But he has posted some pages of records to communal media that he said spine up his claims. Military experts consulted by the AP speak the records demonstrate no indeed such thing. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The AP stated that I had only been deployed to Qatar. My records show my deployment location while classified. In addition, they forgot my deployment to Camp Hialeah inside Korea (which is now closed)," Majewski said inside one tweet, which contained set of two separate documents. \u003c/p>\u003cp>One of the documents included inside the tweet was a "temporary duty assignment" inside early 2001 to South Korea, which are not orders to deploy while Majewski claimed. Key details including the motive of the trip with every one other accompanied by its duration were too blurred not here inside the photo Majewski posted. Additionally, the document's inclusion of the phrases "top secret" with every one other accompanied by "secret" were references to the safety clearances held by Majewski with every one other accompanied by the noncommissioned officer he traveled with, Air Force experts say. That officer, whose name is redacted, had a \"top secret\" clearance; Majewski had a "secret" clearance. Members of the military typically need safety clearances to do their jobs. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The other document included inside the tweet, which does not show a date, indicated Majewski had been medically cleared to go on a different temporary task to a "classified" location.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Experts speak such forms regularly list a work member's destination while classified while a matter of routine. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The source that it says 'classified' is not since he's going to some top secret black ops location," Caffrey said. "It says classified since that's a non-secured form. He's taking that form around accompanied by him to different places on base where people who place eyes on it may not have safety clearances to see what he's doing.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>"It's (operations security). They don't want everyone with every one other accompanied by their male sibling casual broBritish casual bruvver to know where he's going. 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are worsened by climate alter have killed additional than 1,000 people inside Pakistan, caused tens of billions of dollars inside harm with every one other accompanied by destroyed a a large amount of of the country's \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/floods-pakistan-united-nations-climate-and-environment-256f6b5e82035ea449791e76ce775bb8\">staple food with every one other accompanied by commercial crops\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Pakistan is among numerous countries hardest-hit by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/climate-change\">climate change\u003c/a> that have become increasingly outspoken inside seeking additional monetary assistance from richer nations. Past with every one other accompanied by contemporaneous monetary with every one other accompanied by manufacturing booms of China, the United States with every one other accompanied by other leading economies are the biggest contributors to climate change, which is primarily caused by burning fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:553182830256' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='a76406dd2bd9ce030f788073ace82821'>Hub peek embed (Afghanistan) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>The violently 30 million people inside Pakistan reported to exist displaced by the floods are "truly paying inside the forms of their lives with every one other accompanied by their livelihoods for the industrialization of other countries," said Zardari.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"And justice would exist that we labour together" globally, "that we're not left-hand alone, to deal accompanied by the consequences of this tragedy," he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zardari is the son of a past Pakistani main minister with every one other accompanied by a past president. He became overseas minister inside April.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He met accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. The Biden management on the same day announced \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/floods-asia-united-states-pakistan-nations-213cdc09ccf90064ca18bab3633a52c1\">another $10 million inside food assistance for Pakistan,\u003c/a> on top of additional than $56 million inside flood reassurance with every one other accompanied by humanitarian assistance this year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>More broadly, however, the Biden management with every one other accompanied by other governments of leading monetary nations have delivered only a small small portion of the $100 billion inside yearly assistance they have pledged to assist less-wealthy nations survive the droughts, rising seas with every one other accompanied by other disasters of climate alter with every one other accompanied by switch to cleaner vitality themselves.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='b3569c839b534611b822297de6af2fe5' class='media-placeholder'>\u003c/div>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"We expect the United States to exist one of the leading players" inside that, said Zardari, who too spoke approvingly of a nascent proposal not here of the U.N. inside which developed nations could call off not here existing bill while a form of climate aid. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We've not yet seen — with every one other accompanied by that doesn't signify we won't see — the rendering of this eyesight to practicalities on the ground\" inside terms of the all-inclusive climate aid, he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zardari, who spoke to the AP on Tuesday at Pakistan's embassy, too gave contentious recommendations that the U.S. labour additional straight accompanied by Afghanistan's Taliban. Pakistan with every one other accompanied by the United States have shared widely varying amounts of collaboration opposed to brutal armed groups sheltering inside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/afghanistan\">Afghanistan\u003c/a> over the decades. The U.S. lengthy has been at likelihood accompanied by numerous Pakistani officials over sympathetic handling with every one other accompanied by support for the Taliban.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-united-nations-general-assembly-aung-san-suu-kyi-government-and-politics-8148ad79f6857cd0a9db695b2083b5df\">No country recognizes the Taliban\u003c/a>, a category sanctioned while a terrorist organization that retook ability by military strength inside August 2021, while Afghanistan's legal government. The United States with every one other accompanied by the international population at large have sought to deal accompanied by billions of dollars inside frozen Afghan Central Bank funds, to organization monetary reforms, with every one other accompanied by to deliver poorly needed assistance to usual Afghans accompanied by minimal involvement by the Taliban.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"At the chance of hurting anyone's feelings, I believe it's important to allude to that these funds, it's not the Taliban's funds, it's not the Americans' funds. These are funds that belong to the people of Afghanistan," Zardari said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Economic isolation with every one other accompanied by privation such while Afghanistan has experienced since the Taliban takeover only feed authoritarianism with every one other accompanied by extremism, he said. The finest monetary outcomes would labour into and not here of existing institutions, now inside Taliban hands, not into and not here of "some type of side by side government."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Asked if he meant the U.S. needed to clasp its snout with every one other accompanied by deal accompanied by Afghanistan's ruling power, Zardari said, "Pretty much."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Meanwhile, the U.S. finding that the worldwide leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had taken up refuge inside the heart of Afghanistan's first city since the Taliban had returned to ability has left-hand U.S. leaders condemning Taliban officials for alleged complicity. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-al-qaida-biden-ayman-zawahri-travel-de7f784f82028cf53b876a4558783572\">The U.S. killed Zawahiri inside a drone strike inside July.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Taliban had yet to have the hour dated with every one other accompanied by ability to grapple accompanied by extremist groups while a management should, Zardari said. 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But Taliban hard-liners have since turned spine the timepiece to their foregoing harsh rule, confirming the worst fears of anthropoid rights activists with every one other accompanied by further complicating Taliban dealings accompanied by an by that hour dated distrustful international community.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Potzel said that inside U.N. discussions accompanied by Taliban officials, leaders condition that the decision has been made with every one other accompanied by is maintained by Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, "defended by hardliners around him, nevertheless questioned by most of the relax of the movement who are either unable or unwilling to alter the trajectory."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The result, he said, is that women with every one other accompanied by girls are relegated to their home, deprived of their rights, with every one other accompanied by "Afghanistan while a whole is denied the good of 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Women are required to cover themselves from head to toe inside public, accompanied by only their eyes showing.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Taliban have said they are employed on a scheme to not shut subordinate schools for girls nevertheless have not specified a timeframe. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The United Nations has called the ban "shameful" with every one other accompanied by the international population has been wary of officially recognizing the Taliban, fearing a return to the same harsh regulation the Taliban imposed when they were last inside ability inside the late 1990s.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"It is extremely important that education must exist provided to all, lacking some discrimination,\" Stanikzai said. 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No one straight away claimed duty for the assault \u003c/p>\u003cp>The Islamic State category — the leader competitor of the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan inside August 2021 — has inside the past targeted the Hazara community, including inside Dashti Barchi. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Our teams have dispatched at the location of the blast to find not here additional details," Abdul Nafi Takor, a Taliban-appointed spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, said earlier. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.S. chargé d'affaires for Afghanistan, Karen Decker, condemned the assault inside a tweet. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Targeting a space filled of students taking exams is shameful; all students should exist intelligent to pursue an education inside tranquillity & lacking fear,\" she said. 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