Despite separate alerts of a terror attack in Kabul by agencies of Denmark, Australia, France, the US and the UK and their putting them out in public domain, Indian security agencies or the external affairs ministry delayed in taking cognizance of the evolving threat in Afghanistan and issuing specific advisory of a terror threat in the Afghan Capital. Luckily, no Indian was either hurt or killed in the deadly bombings in Kabul on Thursday. Even Pakistan, which has close ties with Taliban, stopped its flights to Kabul a week before the twin bombings. “This should have raised an alarm in the security establishment here.
The agencies should have picked up the development for issuing an advisory to Indian citizens there,” a source in the security establishment admitted.In 2019 too, when the “Easter Bombings” happened, the agencies did not issue an advisory to the Indian citizens in Sri Lanka despite the Centre having an advance and specific inputs of an impending terror attack in the high security diplomatic zone of Colombo to the Government there. The diplomatic staff and the security personnel already present in Afghanistan were evacuated even before the Indian nationals could fly out of Kabul.