NDS prevented terrorist attack in Kabul

National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency – has prevented a massive terrorist attack planned to enter Kabul Military High School, (Harbi Showanzai) in Capital, Kabul.

Confirming the incident, the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) said that the terrorists planned to enter Harbi Showanzai from Pol-e Sokhta Bridge where a large number of drug addicts live there.

But the MoCN refused to give further details regarding the incident.

Under the Pol-e Sokhta Bridge in central Kabul, hundreds of men sit along an open sewer; the air is rancid with the smell human excrement, vomit and a tinge of harsh smoke from glass pipes burning opium.

Estimates say that about 1.6 million Afghans are drug addicts; the Afghan government has space for only about 2,300 of them in its drug treatment facilities around the country. There are almost 100 of them, are mostly funded by international aid.

The ministry of counter narcotics has an anti-drug campaign annually that for the treatment of drug addicts gather them up.

During the campaign the NDS discovered and thwarted a terrorist plan that the militants wanted to pose as drug addicts.

Meanwhile, chairman of Senate’s complaint commission praised NDS performance in thwarting a big conspiracy under Pole- Sokhta Bridge; adding due to the increasing attacks in capital, Kabul, serious security measures need to be taken.