New Delhi
13 February 2006
Taking note of the recent killings of Indians and other nationals
outside Kabul, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has asked
"Afghanistan's neighbours" to focus on justice and security in order to thwart terrorist
acts against innocent civilians.
Sources told this newspaper that the Afghan Government also has been asked to follow
up the recent attacks so that "actors and supporters of terrorism" could be tried in the
courts as "targeting of innocent people for achieving inhuman, political aims is not
acceptable".
An Indian engineer working for a Turkish company was killed in a bomb attack on the
Herat-Kandahar highway in the Farah province. He was later identified as Bharath K.
Three others, a Turkish national, a Nepalese guard and an Afghan driver, were also
killed when the remote-controlled bomb struck their vehicle.
A spokesman for the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Bharath K is the second Indian to be killed in two months. In November last year, Border
Roads Organisation driver Maniyappan Raman Kutty was abducted and killed by the
Taliban. The Taliban had left a letter in which it demanded that BRO should wind up its
operations in Afghanistan.
The sources said that security and justice were both "hampering [the] smooth
reconstruction efforts in [Afghanistan.]" They said Parliament has discussed border
security as "interference by outsiders and particularly from the other side of
Afghanistan's long southern border" was a problem.
The sources conceded that more effective steps were needed to be taken for
implementing the action plan for transitional justice and that the Afghan leaders were
seized of the matter. "It could be very instrumental in ending culture of impunity and
taking known culprits to account," they said.
They described the approval of the three-year action plan for peace, justice and
reconciliation as a big achievement for the war-ravaged country. The action plan was
approved on December 12 last year after which a national conference for reconciliation
was held for two days.
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