Aughanistan: ISKP ‘Pakistani ISIS’ claims devastating blast targeting Hazara Wedding in Kabul

DEVELOPING | Last Updated: Aug 23, 2019

Incident Date: August 17, 2019
Death toll: 81
Wounded: 184
Location: Wedding Hall in Hazara dominant West Kabul
Perpetrators: TTP aka Jamat Ahrar / ISKP / IS / ISIS
Nuance: Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) is splinter of Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which goes by Jamat-e Ahrar in Aughanistan.

The Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan claims responsibility for Kabul wedding blast that killed at least 63 on Saturday night. ISIS releases the identity of the suicide bomber as Abu Asim Al-Pakistani. pic.twitter.com/PpFNN5JQ41

— 1TVNewsAF (@1TVNewsAF) August 18, 2019

ISKP –Jamat Ahrar / Tehreek Taliban #Pakistan #TTP— claims their Pakistani-suicide bomber targeted Hazaras Shia 'mushrikeens'

In Dec 2016, ISKP video in Pashtu, Urdu w/Punjabi accent singled out #Hazaras as root of all evil in AFG pic.twitter.com/lyTP9ATssc #TwitterHazaras

— hazara.net (@hazaranet) August 20, 2019

#Aughanistan | Blast targets Hazaras in a wedding hall in West Kabul – lots of casualties feared via .@bbcpersian https://t.co/VuxfDS06LH #TwitterHazaras

— hazara.net (@hazaranet) August 17, 2019

Photo by TOLOnews' Sharif Amiri shows relatives carrying coffins of six children — all members of one family — killed in Kabul #wedding blast on Saturday evening. pic.twitter.com/wZ4qTW2ele

— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) August 18, 2019

Photo shows relatives are digging up graves for 14 members of one family who were killed in Kabul #wedding blast on Saturday evening. pic.twitter.com/U4mqxwtxUt

— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) August 18, 2019

RIP. Javaid and Karim are two brothers among 14 killed in same family when Pakistan-based TTP/JA/ISKP/IS terrorists targeted Hazara wedding on Aug 17, 2019, in West Kabul killing at least 81, wounding 184#TwitterHazaras pic.twitter.com/e47jl7L7xf

— hazara.net (@hazaranet) August 22, 2019

Eyewitness #WeddingHallBlast targeting #Hazaras in West #Kabul. Language hardly necessary to feel the anguish of a person soaked in blood, picking shattered body parts, many belonging to women, children#twitterHazaras pic.twitter.com/PG8reZ5kFL

— hazara.net (@hazaranet) August 17, 2019

Under the Taliban, the Hazaras suffered one of the worst massacres since their genocide in the late 1890s. Close to 20,000 people were summarily killed by the Taliban in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, execution style in cold blood. https://t.co/ijPCmk8vXq

— Saleha Soadat (@SalehaSoadat) August 19, 2019