60 shia muslims martyred on the day of martyrdom

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

Two bomb blasts apparently targeting Shia
Muslim shrines as hundreds of people gathered
to mark the day of Ashoura have killed at
least 60 people and injured scores more,
according to Afghan police and media reports.
At least 56 people were killed by a suicide
bomber who detonated explosives at the gate of
the Abu-Ul Fazil shrine in the capital Kabul on
Tuesday, many of them children, the AFP news
agency reported.
Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from the
blast site in Kabul, said police had confirmed the
death toll. The ministry off health said that more
than 100 people had also been injured.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to take the
wounded to hospital while some berated police
for allowing the attack to occur on a major
religious holiday, our correspondent said.
'Huge explosion'
"I was there watching people mourning when
there was suddenly a huge explosion," witness
Ahmad Fawad said.
"Some people around me fell down injurefd. I
wasn't hurt, so I got up and started running. It
was horrible," he said.
In a separate attack, a bicycle bomb near a
mosque in the northern city of Mazar-e -Sharif
killed four worshippers, a district police chief
said.
The Taliban condemned the bomb attacks in
Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-e -Sharif as
the brutal work of "enemies", a spokesperson
for the armed group said.
"Very sadly we heard that there were explosions
in Kabul and Mazar- e-Sharif, where people were
killed by the enemy's un- Islamic and inhuman
activity," Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement
published on their website.
Kabul has been targeted by a series of bold
attacks in recent months; include assaults on the
US embassy, a major hotel and the offices of
the British Council.
The blasts occurred as Shias gathered to carry
out religious rituals to mark one of the most
significant days in their calendar.
Hopes for progress
Ashoura, a public holiday in Afghanistan, is
marked by Muslims as a whole, but for Shia
Muslims it is a major religious festival which
commemorates the martyrdom of Imam
Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet
Muhammad.
Shias were banned from marking Ashoura in
public under the Taliban. This year, there are
more Ashoura monuments around the city than
in recent years, including black shrines and
flags.
Meanwhile, a bomb placed in a motorcycle
exploded in the southern Afghan city of
Kandahar on Tuesday afternoon, injuring three
civilians, a spokesmfan for the provincial
governor said.
The site of the Kandahar blast was not near any
mosque or shrine.
The attacks came shortly after a major
conference on Afghanistan's future, held in
the German city of Bonn, 10 years after talks
there which put in place an interim government
after US- led troops toppled the Taliban.
However, Pakistan and the Taliban - both seen
as pivotal to any end to the fighting in
Afghanistan - decided to stay away from the
talks, undermining already modest hopes for
real progress.

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senseless killings

[NoAngst.]

This what Wahaabism generates.

[arabmtu]

Taliban condemned the bomb attacks in
Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-e -Sharif as
the brutal work of "enemies", a spokesperson
for the armed group said.
"Very sadly we heard that there were explosions
in Kabul and Mazar- e-Sharif, where people were
killed by the enemy's un- Islamic and inhuman
activity," Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement
published on their website.

Who did it then? Western mercenaries?

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

If taliban is not behind it, then I gues the quilty ones are alqeada.

[NoAngst.]

Of course "some" politically savvy Taliban spokesmen or supporters will distance themselves from abominable crimes like this. But all know Taliban don't approve of Shiasm as a creed and have sought to undermine it by various means including outright murder and mayhem.