New Delhi

Islamic States’ footprints on the Kabul airport blast were evident and yet the global terrorist group that seeks to bring the world under the ambit of an Islamic rule, brazenly admitted it claiming the suicide bomber had targeted “enemies – US forces, those who cooperated with them’ in the Kabul Airport attack.

The release of the ISIS was posted by the Aqam New Service on social media. It had the picture of the suicide bomber who, it said, had launched a “martyrdom attack” at the mob comprising the Afghans keen to leave the Taliban ruled country.

Surprisingly, the ISIS names the Taliban as one of the US collaborators for “its role in helping the USA in evacuating foreigners, spies, contractor and others who had worked for the US” during one week.

However many analysts have warned against accepting the optics being created that ISIS was different from the Taliban and the two had no connection.

Former Vice President and leader of the anti-Taliban Resistance Amarullah Saleh said, “"Talibs have learned well from the master. Talibs denying links with ISIS is similar to denial of Pak on Quetta Shura. Every evidence we have in hand shows that IS-K cells have their roots in Talibs & Haqqani network...,"

The attack has come almost as anticipated by the US yet it has shaken the world and alerted it against a complex situation that Afghanistan will become for the world post the US withdrawal from the country.

Rattled by the turn of events in Afghanistan, the US President Joe Biden said on those behind the attack, "We will not forgive. We'll not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."  

Biden said the USA will hit the ISIS-K and will finish it. “Our mission will continue,” he said. New York Times posted a video of President Joe Biden's speech on the attack on Twitter:

President Biden mourned the U.S. service members and Afghans killed in the attacks at the Kabul airport on Thursday and addressed those responsible: “We will hunt you down and make you pay.” https://t.co/YXINpuW0qb pic.twitter.com/B8b7vvRhi3

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 27, 2021

Biden said America is determined to get all its citizens and the Afghan allies out of Afghanistan and there is no deadline for it.

India has called for a unified global stand against terrorism-enablers while condemning the terrorist attacks in Kabul that wounded nearly 150 people.

"Today's attacks reinforce the need for the world to stand unitedly against terrorism, and all those who provide sanctuaries to terrorists," India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti told the UNSC.

In the meanwhile, the Afghan people has started crossing Chaman border with Pakistan in large number. Their numbers have swelled four times during last few days.