New Delhi/Kabul

Taliban has claimed responsibility for detonating an explosive laden car close to the residence of Afghanistan Acting Defence Minister Bismillah Muhammadi in Kabul city Tuesday night killing five persons and wounding may.

According to Afghan media reports Muhammadi and his family was not at the residence at the time of the explosion.

In a latter Taliban officially claimed responsibility for the attack on the residence of General Bismillah Mohammadi. Taliban called it “beginning of retaliatory operations against key figures and leaders of the Ghani administration.”

Mohammadi had visited Maidan Wardak where he had said that now the people, too, are ready to fight against the Taliban in support of the security and defense forces. 

According to Tolo News, he said, “War is not the solution; If it was a solution, it would have shown its results in the last 20 years.”

He added: “Therefore if they (Taliban) want to win militarily and impose violence on the people of Afghanistan, they would take this dream to the grave. They should realize that it is not possible through violence.”

After the attack Mohammadi said, "Attacks of this sort by vampires will not weaken my morale in defending the Afghan people and my country," said Muhammadi in his video clip.

The attack left five dead and 20 more wounded.

The report said the explosion which was heard in kilometers was followed by a gunfight between the guards at the residence and gunmen who entered the home.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior Affairs Mirwais Stanikzai said the gunfight came to an end nearly four hours after the gunmen entered the home and started fighting the police Special Forces deployed at the place.

Stanikzai though did not disclose the number of assailants killed, police had said they had gunned down three gunmen.

The assailants had taken 80 people hostage who were later saved by the police special forces.

No one has taken responsibility for the attack.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar, during a telephone conversation with the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, talked about the escalation of violence, widespread human rights violations by the Taliban, and the foreign terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan.