Kabul: Fighting in the Afghan capital Kabul has finally ended, 18 hours after the Taliban launched their attack, officials have said.
A spokesman for Kabul’s police chief said the last gunman, who was fighting near the parliament in the west of the city, was killed early on Monday.
The officials claimed that the forces had killed at least 17 attackers while one police officer has died.
“The latest information we have about the Afghan Parliament area is that the attack is over now and the only insurgent who was resisting has been killed,” said the Kabul police chief’s spokesman Hashmatullah Stanikzai.
Outside the capital on Sunday, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province.
A Taliban spokesman said the violence marked the start of their annual spring offensive which heralds the fighting season, adding that “a lot of suicide bombers” were involved.
The attacks are among the most serious on the capital since US-backed Afghan forces removed the group from power in 2001.
 ‘Haqqani network behind Kabul attacks’
United States (US) ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said that it was unlikely the Afghan Taliban had the capacity to launch Sunday’s attacks on its own, and speculated that the Haqqani network – whose fighters are based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area – were involved.
“My guess, based on previous experience here, is this is a set of Haqqani network operations out of north Waziristan and the Pakistani tribal areas. Frankly I don’t think the Taliban is good enough.”
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