Kabul: Abdullah Abdullah survived an expected suicide attack while 5 dead in Kabul. The front-runner in Afghan’s presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, has survived an expected attack on him today when his convey was targeted in Kabul. The Afghan Interior Ministry said a suicide bomber and a roadside bomb have struck the convoy of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah as it left a campaign event in the capital Kabul. It may be mentioned that Dispatch News Desk in its special report published on June 2, 2014 indicated that attack on Abdullah Abdullah to kill him are expected because Khirullah Khairkhwa who has been released by US is one of the most deadly enemy of Abdullah Abdullah. Read this special report to click this link. US condemns this attack:
The US Embassy condemns today’s attack against Dr. Abdullah Abdullah’s campaign event. The Afghan people deserve democracy, not violence.
— U.S. Embassy Kabul (@USEmbassyKabul) June 6, 2014
Any such attacked was expected after the release of Khirullah Khairkhwa along with four top Taliban leaders. Released Taliban are deadly enemies of expected next President of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah and Pakistan Army. Police confirmed that two blasts hit the site of a rally. Mr Abdullah says some of his bodyguards were among the injured.
Taliban who have been released by United States in a deal for swapping Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl are not ordinary soldiers of Mullah Omar rather his top leaders of 2001 Taliban government and Khirullah Khairkhwa is known for his enmity with Abdullah Abdullah. He was serving as interior minister and governor of Herat in 2001. Khairkhwa was born in 1967 in Kandahar. He is a Popalzai Pathan and studied in Pakistan Jamia Haqqaniya and Akhora Khattak madrassas and student of Mualana Samiulhaq of JUI (S). He is a deadly enemy of Pakistan as he thinks that Pakistan Army was behind his arrest Khirullah was one of the original Taliban members who launched the movement in 1994. Khirullah was also to serve as the Taliban’s Minister of Foreign Affairs spokesman, giving interviews to the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Voice of America.
It was expected that Taliban will attack Abdullah Abdullah because he had been on their target list since long and now after getting top commanders back in the field, Taliban are strong enough to change the game in Afghanistan.
