Kandahar provincial council members claimed on Sunday government is not revealing its findings following a probe into the recent bomb blast at the Kandahar governor’s guesthouse which claimed the lives of 12 people, including five United Arab Emirates diplomats. 

“No information has been given to people and no satisfactory evidence has been shown to them,” Sayed Ahmad Silab, a member of the council, said.

The incident is being investigated by a commission appointed by the Afghan government; in addition to the task team, the United Arabs Emirates (UAE) and NATO are also investigating the incident. 

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) however said investigations into the explosion are still being conducted and that it is a complicated case. 

“The task-team is trying to finish its investigation soon, but as a number of foreign diplomats have been killed in the blast; all the parties affected by the explosion are working together,” Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the MoI said.

However, some legal experts have lashed out at government saying that appointing task teams to probe incidents has become a trend and that often these bodies are a waste of time.  

“Appointing task-teams is not working as we have experienced and it cannot lead Afghanistan to the facts behind incidents. One reason behind the failure of task-teams is whether the members of the team are not qualified people, or did they not release the facts because some government officials were involved in the incident they investigated,” said Ainuddin Bahaduri, Afghanistan’s Lawyers Union Secretary.