WORLD NEWS | Afghanistan worst hit by terrorism: Global Terrorism Index report

kabul [Afghanistan]March 15 (ANI): Afghanistan is the country most affected by terrorism for the fourth consecutive year, despite a 75% drop in attacks and a 58% drop in deaths, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) on Tuesday. Reporting based on Khaama Press.

However, the GTI report notes that the index does not include state repression and violence by state actors. Therefore, Taliban actions are no longer included in the report since they took control of the country.

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According to the FTI, Afghanistan will see 633 deaths in 2022, although there will be 866 fewer terrorism-related deaths in 2022, a 58% reduction from 2021.

“The decline in Afghanistan is largely attributable to the Taliban taking control of the country after the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Since the Taliban are now a state actor in much of Afghanistan, their attacks fall outside the GTI’s definition of terrorism,” the report said say.

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The Islamic State of Khorasan (Daesh) has become the “most active terrorist organization” in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country, killing 422 people in 2022, nearly 67% of the Afghan population, the GTI report said Total terrorism-related deaths in the country this year, according to Khaama Press.

According to Voice of America news, recently, a bomb exploded in a Shia cultural center in Balkh province in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring eight others.

Mohammad Asif Waziri, a spokesman for the local police, told VOA that the blast was aimed at a ceremony honoring Afghan media in the provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif. Five journalists and three children were injured, Waziri said. Guests at the event included provincial government officials and religious clergy.

Abdul Nafi Thakor, spokesman for the Taliban-led interior ministry, said the blast was caused by a planted explosive device. TOLO News reported that one of its reporters was among the victims. According to news reports, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Two days earlier, the Taliban-appointed governor of Balkh in northern Afghanistan was killed in an explosion at his office, according to news reports. Mohammad Asif Waziri, an appointed spokesman for the Balkh Security Ministry, confirmed that Taliban-appointed governor Mohammad Dawood Muzamil was at the site of the blast, according to TOLO News. killed. (Arnie)

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