[Quqnoos] The Afghan intelligence agency has arrested a group of Taliban it said was behind last week's Kabul attack which killed 20 people
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS)
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said the group had also planned and carried out a number of other attacks in the capital over the past several months.
The leader of the group, Eide Gul, has confessed to having planned the attacks from Pakistan, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
The seven arrested had organised eight suicide strikes against foreign and Afghan targets in Kabul since last year. Scores of people were killed or wounded, it said. |