Al-Mirsaad, a Taliban-affiliated media outlet, claimed that the Pakistani intelligence orchestrated the suicide attack on Friday in Kandahar city, and has been carried out by ISIS.
It wrote that the explosion is a message from Pakistan to the Taliban, which portrays how they can use ISIS to create instability in Afghanistan.
Sources from Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar province informed Afghanistan International that in this explosion at least 21 people had been killed, and 50 others got injured.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) also reported that the explosion’s death toll reached 20.
However, the Taliban's Interior Ministry on Friday confirmed that the explosion left three dead and 12 injured.
Al-Mirsaad, affiliated with the Taliban's intelligence, accused Pakistan and ISI of orchestrating Friday’s attack in Kandahar. It stated that the attack is part of Pakistan's military and proxy strategy in Afghanistan.
Earlier, the Taliban had stated that ISIS in Afghanistan had been suppressed and posed no threat to the group.
Al-Mirsaad has predicted that Pakistan would likely take additional actions in the near future to sow instability in Afghanistan, and urged Taliban forces to be ready to counter this development.
