EFSAS comments on the real orchestrators behind the Kabul Gurdwara attack
March 27, 2020
The Taliban, eager to ensure that fingers were not pointing at it as the obvious culprit at a sensitive time in the proposed, but hiccupping, intra-Afghan peace process, was quick to distance itself from the attack. The Khama news agency reported that Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid had said in a statement that the militant group had no link with the attack in the Shor Bazar area of Kabul. On the other hand, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was even quicker in claiming responsibility, and this raised eyebrows. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist networks worldwide, said in a statement that the ISIS’ media arm, Aamaq, had claimed even as the attack was underway that its fighters were currently carrying out the attack on the Gurdwara.
