After a number of bomb blasts and at the very least one assault by a gunman in Kabul on Thursday, a heartbroken Rashid Khan took to Twitter and mentioned, “Kabul is bleeding again, stop killing Afghan please.”
Kabul is bleeding once more 😢😢💔💔STOP KILLING AFGHAN PLEASE 🙏🙏😢😢🇦🇫🇦🇫
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) August 26, 2021
The Thursday blasts killed at the very least 60 Afghans and 13 US service personnel, and plunged the evacuation of western forces from Afghanistan into deeper disaster after Taliban’s takeover on August 15.
The well being official mentioned at the very least 60 folks had been killed within the blast, together with kids, and plenty of Taliban guards had been wounded. Later in an announcement, the Taliban condemned the assault saying it occurred in an space “controlled by US forces”.
This is Rashid’s second attraction to the World and its leaders on social media. The star-leg spinner first tweeted in regards to the rising violence in Afghanistan on August 10, requesting the ‘World Leaders’ to not depart his countrymen in ‘chaos’.
“Dear World Leaders! My country is in chaos, thousands of innocent people, including children & women, get martyred everyday, houses & properties being destructed.Thousand families displaced. Don’t leave us in chaos. Stop killing Afghans & destroying Afghaniatan. We want peace,” Rashid had written.
Dear World Leaders! My nation is in chaos,thousand of harmless folks, together with kids & ladies, get martyred on a regular basis, homes & properties being destructed.Thousand households displaced..Don’t depart us in chaos. Stop killing Afghans & destroying Afghaniatan🇦🇫.We need peace.🙏
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) August 10, 2021
Pakistan-Afghanistan one-day worldwide cricket collection, scheduled for subsequent month in Sri Lanka, has been postponed till subsequent yr following the Taliban takeover.
The Taliban had mentioned they might not intervene with males’s cricket within the nation, Afghanistan’s largest sporting success of latest years. The destiny of the ladies’s program, nevertheless, stays unclear.
Earlier this week, former chief Azizullah Fazli was named performing chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), the primary new appointment within the governing physique since Taliban’s takeover of the strife-torn nation.
On Thursday, one of many bombers struck folks standing knee-deep in a wastewater canal below the sweltering solar, throwing our bodies into the fetid water. Those who moments earlier had hoped to get on flights out could possibly be seen carrying the wounded to ambulances in a daze, their very own garments darkened with blood.
A U.S. official mentioned the advanced assault was believed to have been carried out by the Islamic State group. The IS affiliate in Afghanistan is much extra radical than the Taliban, who not too long ago took management of the nation in a lightning blitz and condemned the assault.
Even as the world was hit, evacuation flights continued to take off from Kabul airport.