Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri turned into killed in a drone strike through the United States in Afghanistan on July 31. Ambassador Mohammad Zahir Aghbar, the Afghan Envoy to Tajikistan, stated own circle of relatives participants of Haqqanis have been additionally killed withinside the US strike.
The Haqqani community is an Islamist terror outfit based through Jalaluddin Haqqani, who emerged because the rebel commander at some point of the anti-Soviet war.
“According to the reviews we’ve from Kabul, positive own circle of relatives participants of the Haqqani institution have been killed withinside the US strike. That residence belonged to Haqqanis and that they have left Kabul,” Ambassador Mohammad Zahir Aghbar instructed India Today.
The multi-storey bungalow in Kabul, in which the Al-Qaeda chief turned into hiding, turned into owned through a near aide of the indoors minister of Afghanistan, Sirajuddin Haqqani.
According to the Afghan envoy, Sirajuddin Haqqani and different pinnacle leaders have left secure homes in Kabul and feature moved someplace else, including that numerous terrorist businesses are nonetheless found in Afghanistan.
“The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri isn’t vital for the humans of Afghanistan. What is vital for us is for the global network to realize that terrorism is developing in Afghanistan beneathneath the safety of the Taliban,” he stated.
Speaking approximately Pakistan’s involvement in divulging Al-Qaeda leaders’ whereabouts, the Afghan envoy stated for the reason that US has a totally numerous dating with Pakistan, it could without difficulty get right of entry to lots of factors inside Afghanistan.
“Pakistan is a strategic companion of the United States. Appreciate businesses who knowledgeable the United States of Zawahiri’s whereabouts. It has uncovered the Taliban,” the ambassador stated.
A US drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the 9/11 assaults at the US and ensured al-Qaeda survived and unfold withinside the years after.
US President Joe Biden introduced the killing of al-Zawahri, handing over a big counterterrorism win simply eleven months after American troops left the country.
