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Nimroz suicide bombers were Iranians: MPs

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 “Since signing the much-debated strategic agreement with the United States, Iran has escalated its subversive activities inside Afghanistan,” say MPs

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KABUL: Legislators in the Lower House (LH) claimed that Nimroz province suicide attackers were citizens of Iran’s Balochistan. MPs while condemning interferences of Iran in Afghanistan have asked the government to bring to justice those who were involved in killing of innocent citizens in Zaranj, the capital city of Nimroz.
Freshta Amini, an MP from Nimroz, said that investigation showed that three detained suicide attackers were Iranians who came from Balochistan of Iran to carry out another terror attacks after the first one on Monday morning in Zaranj city.
She demanded of the government to follow the case seriously and give capital punishment to the arrested Iranian terrorists.
Mir Bat Khan Mangal, an MP from Khost, alleged that the Afghan government not only denied Iran’s interference in Afghanistan but also shown its negligence regarding the infiltration of the Iranian suicide attackers into Afghan soil. He said the government had not shown any reaction in this regard yet, which of course is worth condemnation and lamentation.
He also urged the government to punish the detained Iranian citizens. 
Naheed Farid, a member of the International Relations Committee of the House, urged the government to execute those Iranians who were involved in suicide attacks in Nimroz that killed and wounded scores of residents. 
She asked the House members not to be silent against killings of Afghans by the Taliban and Iranians.  
A member of the Internal Security Affairs Committee of the House, Fazel Azim Mujaddedi, came hard on MPs and said the US signed the strategic partnership pact with the Afghan government but did not implement it sincerely, as American troops was reluctant to respond to much lingering cross-border attacks from Pakistani military forces on Afghan border police. 
Nazifa Zaki, another member of the committee, said the international community has not supported the Afghan government sincerely, which is why Pakistan has ever considered it as its backyard. 
“The international community, especially the IMF and the World Bank are not interested to financially support Afghan spy agency—National Directorate of Security (NDS), to expand its formation and foil suicide attacks in different parts of the country in an aggressive manner,” she said. 
Meanwhile, lawmakers criticized the one-sided stance of the Afghan government it has adopted on peace process, and said Kabul should bring changes in its policy in peace efforts, as the Taliban were killing more and more innocent civilians day by day, avoiding not to come on table of negotiation but to prolong the macabre slaughter of innocent Afghan commoners as well as high profiled peace interlocutors.
 
 

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