President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said attacks on civilians were against all Islamic principles and could harm the peace process.
The president said attacking civilians was a crime against humanity and tasked the authorities concerned with investigating the attack on Attorney General Office (AGO) officials in Kabul.
On Monday, five AGO prosecutors were killed by unidentified gunmen in Deh Sabz district of Kabul province.
The slain AGO personnel worked in the Judicial and Detention Centre of Bagram Jail in central Parwan province.
AGO Spokesperson Jamshid Rasouli told Pajhwok Afghan News the Monday attack was staged by terrorists in Deh Sabz district at around 8:00am.
A statement from the Presidential Palace Media’s office received by Pajhwok said President Ghani strongly condemned the attack.
It quoted the president as saying, “Attacks on civilians and government officials are inhuman act and against all Islamic principles. The country’s enemy want the peace process to fail.”
The statement said, “Taliban should stop violence so the people of this country see an end to the ongoing conflict and experience a lasting peace.”
It added President Ghani has tasked authorities concerned to investigate the attack on the AGO employees and also shared his sympathies with the victims’ families.
Sediq Seidiq, spokesman for the Presidential Palace, told a press conference here that the rise in Taliban was undermining public confidence in the group’s commitment to the peace process.
He strongly condemned the latest attacks, which he said put the lives of Afghans at risk.
He said Taliban attacks within the past one week showed they had a weak commitment toward the demand of Afghans and government of Afghanistan of an end to the ongoing conflict in the country.
He said last week’s attack was bloodiest in the past 19 years in the country.
At least 42 civilians lost their lives and another 105 were wounded in Taliban attacks last week, the National Security Council (NSC) said on last Sunday.
In a statement, the NSC said the Taliban continued to inflict casualties on civilians despite the promise of reduction in violence.
The statement claimed most of civilian casualties resulted from roadside bomb blasts, face-to-face fighting, targeting civilians by insurgents who also used civilians as human shield. The NSC said targeting civilians was un-Islamic
Sediqi said the Afghan government had taken a number of steps for the peace process but the Taliban had a weak resolve in this regard.
