ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: A group calling itself the “Secret Army of Muslim Mujahideen” has claimed responsibility for at least 50 attacks in Afghanistan, according to pamphlets distributed on Sunday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

The flier, written in the local Pushto language, was distributed overnight in and around Peshawar, which lies close to the border with Afghanistan, according to AIP.

It cited attacks in Kabul, Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, Nangarhar and Paktika, mostly on US soldiers and bases concentrated near the eastern Afghan border, saying they were carried out by the previously unknown “Secret Army” of Muslim holy warriors.

The pamphlet listed two bomb attacks near the US embassy in Kabul, a rocket attack on peacekeeping headquarters, an explosion near the Russian mission, a bomb near a UN guesthouse, a rocket attack on Bagram air base and a blast on a US base near a house in Kandahar belonging to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

But an assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kandahar last September, recent explosions in the southeastern province of Khost and the setting on fire of a girls’ school were all the work of former Taliban members, the pamphlet said.

Four girls’ schools came under rocket or arson attack in October in the Wardak province, just west of the capital Kabul.

The pamphlet ended with a pledge to continue attacks on foreign “armies”, mainly US forces hunting down remnants of the ousted Taliban regime and Al Qaeda network accused of masterminding the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Several pamphlets and posters have been distributed over the last year near the Afghan-Pakistan border.

On Saturday people living in the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak found posters threatening death to those who supported Karzai’s US-backed government. One pamphlet in the former Afghan Taliban stronghold and southern city of Kandahar warned men not to send their daughters to school or their women to work.—Reuters