In its first declaration at the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Asian country’s ruling Taliban regime defined the improvement as a ‘clean violation’ of the Doha Agreement among the institution and the US of America.
“The Islamic Emirate (of Afghanistan) condemns this assault withinside the most powerful viable phrases and considers it a clean violation of global concepts and the Doha Agreement,” Zabiullah Mujahid, the regime’s spokesperson stated in a declaration in Pashto.
Mujahid, Afghanistan’s deputy minister of records and subculture beneathneath the current, Islamist institution-led administration, additionally had a phrase of warning for Washington over any destiny operation of comparable type on Afghan soil.
“The motion is towards the pastimes of the US of America and Afghanistan. Any destiny repetition might also additionally damage current opportunities,” the declaration read.
Zawahiri, a 71-year-vintage Egyptian country wide, succeeded Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda’s head after the latter became killed through americaA Navy Seals in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011. His personal demise passed off in a residence owned through senior Taliban chief and Afghanistan’s indoors minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani.
While the operation to put off Zawahiri became performed on July 30, it became showed through US President Joe Biden handiest on Monday evening (nearby time) in a country wide deal with from the White House. In his speech, Biden underlined, amongst different things, that no civilian – in addition to own circle of relatives contributors of the terrorist chief – became harmed at some point of the strike.