6 killed in Nangarhar blast in Afghanistan

(PTI) Jalalabad, Ta. 13

Three bomb blasts targeting the Taliban in Jalalabad, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, have killed at least three people and injured more than 50 others. On the other hand, 10 people were killed in a US airstrike in Kabul to kill the terrorists of the terrorist attack on Kabul airport late last month. The United States has acknowledged that these people are not terrorists but civilians.

A series of three blasts targeted Taliban vehicles in Jalalabad, Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamic State is believed to have carried it out. Eastern Afghanistan is a stronghold of the Islamic State and a new enemy of the Taliban rulers. It was not immediately clear if Taliban officials were among those killed or injured in the attack. Meanwhile, two people were injured in a bomb blast in Kabul. It was not immediately clear who carried out the bombing in Kabul, and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Meanwhile, the United States launched a drone strike in Kabul on August 9 in response to an attack on Kabul airport. The United States has said that IS-Khorasan militants who attacked Kabul airport were killed in the attack. However, the Pentagon has now admitted to the Pentagon that the 10 people killed in the drone strike in Kabul were not terrorists but civilians and had no ties to IS-Khorasan and posed no threat to the US military.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has apologized for a drone strike in Kabul. "I express my deepest condolences to the families of the victims of the drone strike," he said. We apologize for the inconvenience and try to learn a lesson from this terrible mistake.

Meanwhile, the Taliban, which has returned to power in Afghanistan after 30 years, has launched a search for a treasure trove of 5,000-year-old Bactrian gold in the Tela Tapa area of ​​northern Jawzjan province. The Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture said it had begun efforts to track down and locate the Bactrian treasure. Bactrian treasure is also known as Bactrian gold. The treasure was discovered four decades ago in the Sherbergen district. Tolo News quoted Ahmadullah Wasik, vice-president of the Taliban's interim cabinet's culture ministry, as saying he had ordered the search for the Bactrian treasure. If the treasure was taken out of Afghanistan, it would be considered treason. According to National Geographic, the Bactrian treasure contains thousands of gold pieces from the ancient world. Is. From the first century BCE By the turn of the century, more than 20,000 items had been found in six tombs, including gold rings, coins, weapons, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, weapons, and crowns. In addition to gold, it also includes precious stones such as turquoise, Karelian and Lapis Lajuli.