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The Afghanistan Interior Ministry has accused foreign intelligence of organizing the deadly offensive in the eastern Jalalabad city on Thursday which left 18 people including 10 police dead and 15 others wounded.
"Aimed at destabilizing the country, the terrorists and their supporters outside Afghanistan in the continuation of subversive activities targeted a police station in Jalalabad city Thursday morning, killing 10 police and a civilian and wounding 15 others," the Interior Ministry said in a statement released here hours after the deadly attack.
The statement said that since the Pakistani government reached a ceasefire with Taliban militants in the country, the Medaress, or religious schools, on the other side of the border (referring to Pakistan) have been closed and the Taliban or religious students have been sent to Afghanistan to conduct terrorist attacks and disrupt the security for the coming presidential elections.
According to local police, seven Taliban militants were also killed in Thursday morning's attack in Jalalabad city, the capital of Nangarhar province 120 km east of Kabul.
"Seven Taliban terrorists equipped with suicide vests and assault rifles raided a police station at 05:30 a.m. local time and police retaliated during which all the seven attackers were killed," provincial police chief Fazal Ahmad Shirzad said, adding that those who sustained injuries were 14 police and a journalist.
The building of the national television in the city and the police station were badly damaged, Shirzad said.
Meanwhile, Zabihullah Mujahid who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit in talks with the media via telephone from an unknown location said at least 20 policemen including the head of the police station had been killed in the offensive.
