Monday June 18, 2018
Kabul (BNA) In a message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar said foreign countries and their intelligence agencies have been keeping the war flames alive in Afghanistan.
Reacting to video and pictures on social media showing cheerful soldiers and Taliban hugging one another and exchanging Eid greeting in several provinces, NSA Hanif Atmar said the two men- one soldier and one Talib- with their smiling faces indicated a fortunate future and trust building between the sides. “These two men live in different worlds of thinking, but their features show they have the same blood, they are from the same race and both want a bright future for their motherland.” “On our sacred land, foreign countries and their intelligence agencies have been keeping alive the flames of war in Afghanistan to reach their nefarious designs, otherwise, the Afghans under no circumstances want the war to continue,” said the NSA. Video and pictures on social media showed cheerful soldiers and Taliban hugging once another and exchanging Eid greetings in Logar province, south of Kabul and Zabul in the south and central Maidan Wardak. No report of violence could be reported over the past 24 hours after the Taliban’s ceasefire went into effect on Friday, overlapping with an Afghan government ceasefire which lasts until Wednesday.
