AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): A member of the ISIL terrorist group has been arrested for the last week’s shooting attack targeting the Pakistani Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul.
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Monday they had arrested a foreign operative of the ISIL terrorist group for carrying out last week’s failed assassination attempt on Pakistan’s chief diplomat in the country, according to ABC News.
Earlier on Sunday, ISIL terrorist group claimed responsibility for an attack on Pakistan's embassy in Kabul.
ISIL claimed the attack was carried out by two of its members armed with "medium and sniper weapons" and was targeting the ambassador and his guards who were present in the courtyard of the embassy, according to Reuters.
The attack injured at least one guard and caused damage to the building, the group said.
Pakistan's embassy in Kabul came under attack on Friday with gunfire wounding a Pakistani security guard, officials said, in what Islamabad called an attempt to assassinate its head of mission, who was unhurt.
A spokesperson for Kabul police said the embassy compound was targeted by gunfire from a nearby building. Police had arrested one suspect and recovered two firearms, the statement said.
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