The governor of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Balkh fiefdom was killed in a blast at his office on Thursday (March 9) morning. Governor Mohammad Dawood Muzammil and one other person were killed in the explosion that was probably a self-murder attack. “Two people, including Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh, have been killed in an explosion this morning on the alternate bottom of his office, in the parochial capital Mazar-i-Sharif,” police spokesperson Asif Waziri told.
On February 28, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Special Forces killed the intelligence and military chief of the militant group during an operation in Kabul. Waziri said the blast happed on the alternate bottom of his office in the parochial capital of Mazar-i-Sharif. “It was a self-murder attack. We don’t have information as to how the self-murder bomber reached the office of the governor,” he said, adding that two people were also wounded. No bone incontinently claimed responsibility for the attack, but a indigenous chapter of the ISIL group is a crucial rival of the ruling Taliban.
The payoff of Muzammil, known for his resistance to the ISIL in the area, came a day after he met top government officers visiting from capital Kabul. In a separate operation, the Afghan Taliban administration had arrested a high- ranking ISKP officer who was known to have been working as the terrorist organisation’s key chief. The operations had come under the background of meetings where Pakistan had managed to secure “fresh commitment” from the Afghan Taliban on diving the renewed trouble posed by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) after a high-position delegation led by the country’s defence minister visited Kabul last week, according to officers familiar with the development. Violence across Afghanistan dramatically dropped since the Taliban seized control, but the security situation has again deteriorated with ISIL claiming several deadly attacks.
Authorities stationed redundant security at the governorate and proscribed intelligencers from taking prints, a pressman of the AFP news agency reported from near the point of the blast. Muzammil was “martyred in an explosion by the adversaries of Islam”, twittered Taliban government’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid.