Alwaght- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to take revenge after several deadly terrorist attacks rocked the country as he accused neighboring Pakistan of failing to move against the Taliban terrorist group.
"People will not forget. Even if it takes a hundred years, the Afghans will take their revenge," Ghani said in a televised address to the nation after Friday prayers.
Afghans "demand" peace and want "practical actions (from Pakistan)", the president added.
Ghani noted that at least eleven people have been detained over the attacks. He gave no further details about the detainees.
Ghani also stressed that officials would submit a new security plan for Kabul on Sunday to prevent any further attacks.
The Kabul government is under growing public pressure to improve security in the Afghan capital after three major attacks in the past two weeks demonstrated the ability of militants to strike at the heart of the violence-wracked country.
Since January 20, terrorists have stormed a luxury hotel, bombed a crowded street and raided a military compound in Kabul, killing more than 130 people. A Western charity in the eastern city of Jalalabad was also attacked. Officials said at least five people were killed.
The remarks came a day after Afghan officials said they had given neighboring Pakistan evidence showing that the militants who carried out recent series of deadly attacks were trained on Pakistani soil.
On Thursday, Afghan Interior Minister Wais Barmak and Masooom Stanekzai, Defense Minister and head of National Directorate of Security, told a press briefing in Kabul that they had presented confessions by captured militants and other proof at a meeting a day earlier in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Afghanistan has long accused Pakistan of aiding terrorists by giving shelter and aid to leaders of the Taliban insurgency, a charge denied by Pakistan, which points to the thousands of its own citizens killed by militant violence over the years.
A Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman said Pakistan and Afghanistan were both victims of terrorism and needed to work together to fight the common threat.
“Pakistan affirms solidarity with the people and government of Afghanistan in fighting the menace of terrorism,” he said in a statement. “We feel the pain of our Afghan brothers and sisters.”
Pakistan had taken strong action to counter terrorism, including operations against Haqqani network camps in mountainous Waziristan.
