National Resistance Front Claims Over 2,000 Attacks on Taliban in Past Five Years

Abdullah Khanzani, head of the political section of Afghanistan's National Resistance Front, said the group has carried out more than 2,000 attacks against the Taliban over the past five years without harming civilians.

Khanzani made the remarks Tuesday during a meeting in the Belgian Senate. He added that despite the arrest of hundreds of National Resistance Front forces by the Taliban, the armed struggle continues. Khanzani urged European countries not to adjust their policies toward Afghanistan based on Taliban demands and called for continued support for Afghan women and girls as well as an end to the deportation of Afghan refugees.

Separately, Pakistan conducted an airstrike Monday night in east Kabul next to the Umid Camp, a drug addicts' treatment center. Taliban deputy spokesman Hamidullah Fitrat said Pakistan targeted the camp, killing 400 people and wounding 250. Local residents reported to Afghanistan International that the strike hit a Taliban drone manufacturing factory or the Intelligence Directorate of the Taliban Ministry of Defense. Pakistan Information Minister Ataullah Tarar described the action as a precise operation targeting terrorist support facilities and infrastructure.

Afghanistan International's findings indicate the site housed both a drug rehabilitation center and a suicide drone factory. The United Nations office in Kabul has not released independent casualty figures.

In other developments, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai for her efforts to defend the rights of women and girls, particularly in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has imposed bans on their education, employment and activism, described by human rights organizations as 'gender apartheid.'

At a UN Security Council meeting approving the extension of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Pakistani official Jadoon accused elements within the Taliban of cooperating with or providing a conducive environment for groups including Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Balochistan Liberation Army, ISIS-Khorasan, Al-Qaeda and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.