The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Chief Maulana Samiul Haq, famous as Taliban’s Spiritual Father, has reacted at the deadly airstrike in Kunduz province amid reports both the Taliban and civilians have suffered casualties in the raid.
He has term the airstrike as an act of barbarism and has said the attack on religious scholars, seminary students and civilians was a sheer act of terrorism.
Maulana Samiul Haq has also claimed that the attack was continuation of policies of US President Donald Trump as he warned that such incidents were a threat to international peace.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Chief has also claimed that US was trying to sabotage the peace in Muslim counties and create civil war like situation there.
This comes as the Ministry of Defense officials are saying that the airstrike was carried out a main stronghold of the Taliban group in Dasht-e-Archi district which was also being used as the training camp by the group.
According to the defense officials, the raid was conducted based on accurate intelligence information and as a result several Taliban insurgents including eighteen of their leaders were killed.
In regards to the civilian casualties, Gen. Radmanish said the Afghan army helicopters attacked the the compound with rockets but the civilians sustained casualties from small fire arms.
According to Gen. Radmanish, the Taliban militants initially opened fire on army helicopters after their base was attacked with rockets and later opened fire on civilians.
