KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday termed Kabul attacks a failure of Afghan intelligence, especially of Nato’s as heavy street fighting between insurgents and security forces came to an end after 18 hours.
Fighting which broke out on Sunday gripped the city’s central districts through the night, with large explosions and gunfire.
“The fact terrorists were able to enter Kabul and other provinces was an intelligence failure for us and especially for Nato,” president’s office said in a statement, which also strongly condemned the attack.
Though the death toll was relatively low considering the scale of the assault, it highlighted the ability of militants to strike at high-profile targets in the heart of the city even after more than 10 years of war.
His office said 36 insurgents were killed in the attacks which paralysed Kabul’s government district, and which targeted three other provinces in what the Taliban called the start of a spring offensive. One fighter was captured.
Eleven members of the Afghan security forces and four civilians were killed in the well-planned attacks in Kabul and the eastern Nangarhar, Logar and Paktia provinces, it said.
“In only a short time we managed to cut short their devilish plans,” said defence ministry chief of operations Afzal Aman. “They carried suicide vests, but managed to do nothing except be killed.”
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