1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul

Attack by Afghan protestors on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan July 2016 July 2026 1995 attack on the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul the Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) Afghanistan 250 34.5553 69.2075 Kabul Embassy of Pakistan, Kabul, Afghanistan Pakistani embassy 6 September 1995 1 26 The 1995 attack on the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul occurred on 6 September 1995 when up to 5,000Rubin Barry M. Chronologies of Modern Terrorism 2008 M.E. Sharpe 978-0765620477 Judith Colp Rubin 265 protestors attacked and sacked the embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, after the Taliban militia had captured Herat from the internationally recognised Islamic State of Afghanistan. One person was killed and twenty six others, including the Pakistani ambassador, were injured. The attack occurred due to the Afghan peoples belief that Pakistan had helped the Taliban to take the city.Hussain Rizwan Pakistan and the Emergence of Islamic Militancy in Afghanistan 2005 Ashgate 978-0754644347 203 Background The attack against the Pakistani embassy by pro-government protestors in Kabul took place a day after the Taliban militia had successfully established control over Herat. When the Taliban took control of Herat, they arrested hundreds of its citizens, closed down all the schools and "forcibly implement[ed] their social bans and Sharia law, even more fiercely than in Kandahar". Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 2001 40 Yale Nota Bene Books 978-0300089028 https://archive.org/details/talibanmilitant000rash/page/40 The Taliban imposed as rulers over the city and region extremist Taliban officials "many of whom" did not even speak the local regional language Persian. Kamal Matinuddin, Lt. General of the Pakistan army and former member of Pakistan's diplomatic corps, alleges the Afghan government sacked the embassy in "retaliation for the capture of Herat" because they "felt" the Taliban could have only done so with Pakistan's help.Matinuddin Kamal The Taliban Phenomenon: Afghanistan 1994–1997 https://archive.org/details/talibanphenomeno00mati registration 1999 Oxford University Press 9780195792744 261 But according to William Maley, the Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, the attack by angry protestors against the Pakistan embassy was due to "bitter resentment towards Pakistan which had built up among the victims of Pakistan's strategy" first using Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in a destructive bombardment campaign against Kabul and then the Taliban to install a client in Afghanistan.William Maley The Afghanistan Wars 26 August 2009 2009 216 Palgrave Macmillan 978-0230213142 De facto, scholars such as Pakistani analyst Ahmed Rashid, write: "[T]he Taliban had spent the summer [of 1995] rebuilding their forces with arms, ammunition and vehicles provided by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and a new command structure created with the help of ISI advisers. The ISI also helped broker an agreement, never made public, between the Taliban and General Rashid Dostum ... to repair Mig fighters and helicopters the Taliban had captured a year earlier in Kandahar, thereby creating the Taliban's first airpower. ... the Taliban quickly mobilised some 25,000 men, many of them fresh volunteers from Pakistan." Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 2001 39 Yale Nota Bene Books 978-0300089028 https://archive.org/details/talibanmilitant000rash/page/39 According to "Pakistan and the Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid, also published in April 1998 as a column in The Nation, Pakistan furthermore directly provided limited "military support" in the Taliban's September 1995 offensive against HeratAhmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid in William Maley's "Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban" March 1998 March 1998 86 NYU Press 978-0814755860 https://archive.org/details/fundamentalismre00male/page/86 which led to the capture of the city and the subsequent anti-Pakistan protests in Kabul. Rizwan Hussein in "Pakistan and the emergence of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan" summarises: "As has now been established by several scholarly and journalistic works, the Pakistan military establishment directly assisted the Taliban's rise and subsequent capture of this region [Herat] in Afghanistan between 1995 and 1996."Rizwan Hussein Pakistan and the emergence of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan 2005 2005 203 Ashgate Pub Ltd 978-0754644347 The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs describes Pakistan's support to the Taliban as "at its height" in 1995.Pakistan Institute of International Affairs Pakistan horizon 2006 40 The Pakistani ambassador to Kabul, Qazi Humayun, himself alongside Pakistan's Consul General in Herat, Colonel Imam, later attended Taliban meetings in Kandahar. Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 2001 42 Yale Nota Bene Books 978-0300089028 https://archive.org/details/talibanmilitant000rash/page/42 These meetings discussed how the Taliban could best conquer Afghanistan militarily and how "best to impose Sharia law" over Afghanistan. Pakistani politicians during that time repeatedly denied supporting the Taliban, which has been described by reliable sources as an explicit 'policy of denial'.Hussain Rizwan Pakistan and the Emergence of Islamic Militancy in Afghanistan 208Amin Saikal Amin Saikal Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival 2006 1st 342 I.B. 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