Why Daesh attack Milad un Nabi function in Kabul?

Hassan Khan

On the day when faithfuls were
observing the birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Kabul, terrorists strike and killed some 100 innocent Afghans and injured so many others. Officials sources termed the attack as one of the deadliest assaults to strike Afghanistan this year.

Among the victims majority were the students of the madrassas and followers of religious personality Pir Saif ur Rehman.

Eyewitness Mohammad Hanif said verses of Quran were being recited when there was a deafening explosion followed by “chaos” inside the packed 

According to the manager of the Uranus Wedding Palace, which also hosts political and religious functions, suicide bomber blew himself up in middle of gathering of around 1,000 people.

The Islamic State in Afghanistan group, sometimes known as Islamic State Khorasan, has claimed responsibility for most of the recent deadly attacks of this kind.

The gathering was of the followers of Pir Saif ur Rehman - a religious personality who died recently and is buried in Lahore. Pir was known as Pir-e-Kamil and was pursuing all the four important series of Tareeqat including Naqshbandiya, Chisteeya, Qadreya and Suharwerdiya. 

Pir sb basically belonged to the Kanduz province in Afghanistan and migrated to Pakistan in the decade of seventies when Afghanistan was attacked by Soviet Union forces. He was settled in Khyber Agency tehsil Bara - an area mostly inhabited by the Afridi tribe. 

In Bara when militancy started growing up a group named Lashkar e Islami was formed by one Mufti Muneer Shakir. The Mufti was dead against Pir sb. When the rivalry and enmity between both the Mufti and Pir sb reach at dangerous level the local jirga expelled both from the areas. Pir sb has migrated to Lahore and settled there permanently. 

After some time the leadership of Lashkar e Islami was taken over by a militant commander Mangal Bagh Afridi. Pakistan military carried a number of military operations against Mangal Bagh and his group. Mangal Bagh later shifted along with his group to Afghanistan to avoid wrath of the military.

Reports say, Mr Mangal Bagh after getting weakened has joined the terrorist group - ISIS- locally known as Daesh or sometimes known as Islamic State Khorasan.

Some observers are hinting at the fact that the Kabul attack on the followers of Pir Saif ur Rehman as being orchestrated by elements in Islamic State of Khorasan who belonged to Mangal Bagh group who has joined the ISIS.   

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