Attack on prison in Afghanistan: At least 21 people killed.

Attack on prison in Afghanistan: At least 21 people have been killed and 42 others injured in an attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan.

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At least 21 people have been killed and 42 others injured in an attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan officials say there were several explosions including a suicide car bomb outside the prison in the city of Jalalabad, afghan security forces are locked in a gun battle with the attackers several prisoners escaped during the fighting ISIL claimed responsibility.  

It's believed that a vast amount of Daesh or ISIL members who are imprisoned in this very prison, so if daesh has taken responsibility the primary motive could be to make sure that to sort of release their prisoners and this is what they have done, the initial reports says that there are about 1,500 prisoners in the prison and 500 of them have been able to escape which the government claims that they were able to capture them all after they evaded the prison, primary motive could be that the daesh wanted to have its members out of the prison,  jalalabad is located in eastern afghanistan this is where the strongholds of daesh were since 2014, 2015. 

Kunar province, Nuristan province, Laghman province and Nangarhan province is this eastern area where had the presence of daesh and this is where majority of their prisoners are kept and perhaps they wanted to infiltrate and have their prisoners released.

There are two messages that could be taken from what has happened in jalalabad one is that it had numerous press statements, press releases, speeches of various government officials this includes president Ghani and the national security adviser over and over bragging about the defeat of daesh in afghanistan and how the afghan government have done so well and eliminating and uprooting the phenomena of daesh and what has happened today is basically contradicting the claims of the afghan government.

Daesh has proven that they have ability to inflict damage to the afghan government, inflict damage where the heart of one of afghanistan's major and important urban centers called jalalabad, the other message that is being passed on is that the United States of America, Afghan government and the Taliban are basically a step short of starting the intra-afghan negotiations, other message could be that it's not just the taliban other elements which are basically of a huge threat to the survival of the afghan national security forces is just not the taliban, also have daesh force to reckon with. So basically if get into an agreement with the taliban what's going to happen to the future or the fate of daesh because just like the government has claimed that they have taken care of daesh they have been uprooted and what they have done in jalalabad is totally contradicting each other.