Ayesha and Malika are safe and sound.
Also her grandmother,
although she appeared badly wounded
and unconscious in the shocking video recorded this Sunday in a new attack that occurred in Kabul.
It is the day to day of a war that is about to turn two decades and that does not see its end.
After the promise of former President Donald Trump to withdraw all troops from the country to satisfy the Taliban - whom the Government blames for attacks like this - now in question with Joe Biden, the violence does not stop.
According to Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary, the girls
are physically fine
.
The old woman is serious.
A photograph shared by social networks shows them on a stretcher, with bruises and small wounds.
Worse is the trauma that will accompany them forever, and which began when, at rush hour, a driver
detonated the explosive charge
of his vehicle next to a checkpoint at the Baraki roundabout.
According to the local channel Tolo, at least three people died, including a passerby.
The little ones were much luckier, although the images of the first seconds after the explosion, in which they appear crying inconsolably,
covered with blood and shouting "mother! Mother! Mother, get up!"
they are heartbreaking.
Many Afghans inside and outside the country, who shared them on the Internet, condemned this new episode of death in the capital, which in recent months has seen
this type of attack
occur almost daily.
Tolo counts 66 attacks during the last month, in which 51 people have lost their lives.
Added to the car bombs and rocket fire are the
targeted killings of activists
, journalists and politicians, which have plunged many prominent voices in society into terror.
The Government of Ashraf Ghani.
blamed by his critics for not doing enough to reach a peace agreement with the Taliban, he blames this extremist group for provoking massacres to put the negotiation in his favor.
Representatives of the Afghan Executive and civil society have been meeting with Taliban delegates in Qatar since September.
The talks are the fruit of a previous agreement reached by the Trump administration and armed fundamentalists, whose government overthrew the US and its allies after 9/11.
The urgency of Donald Trump to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from the country, in order to
mark an electoral goal
, has left a withdrawal calendar that has the next May 1 as the deadline.
As the new president debates whether to extend the term, as recommended by many of his advisers, the attacks persist across the country.
Faced with the weakness of the Afghan security forces, Taliban fighters are advancing in rural areas, closing in around some provincial capitals.
Kabul blames neighboring Pakistan
for providing cover for the actions of extremists, whom the government, singled out for their corruption, also accuses of hiding behind other groups to attack.
Faced with bloody attacks like this Sunday, with civilian victims, the Taliban choose to remain silent or to deny any role.
It is no less true that
other armed organizations operate
in Afghanistan such
as the Islamic State in Khorasan or Al Qaeda and its affiliates, which, according to the agreement they signed with the US a year ago, the Taliban must eradicate.
The UN has until today questioned whether the Taliban have completely severed their ties with the Egyptian doctor Zawahiri network.
As the debate continues, girls like Ayesha and Malika see death very close every day.
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