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Government and Taliban play blame game over civilian casualties
A day after the Afghan Republic’s peace talks team and the Taliban peace negotiators announced they had finalized the rules and procedures for intra-Afghan negotiations, the Ministry of Interior and the Taliban blamed each other for the high rate of civilian casualties in the ongoing war.
The Ministry of Interior claims that at least 476 civilians have been killed or wounded in the past month in Taliban attacks across the country.
Tariq Arian a spokesman for the ministry said that in the past month Taliban conducted 16 suicide attacks and were responsible for 168 IED explosions.
“In the past one month at least 134 civilians lost life and 342 others were wounded in the Taliban attacks and blasts,” Arian said.
This crime is unjustifiable, Arian added.
The ministry’s allegations came just an hour after the Taliban accused the government of killing 68 civilians during operations in the past week.
“Kabul carried out 26 attacks on civilian targets last week, 68 civilians martyred and injured,” the group claimed in a statement.