Kabul (Web Desk): Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack on an Afghan intelligence agency post on Monday that killed at least seven personnel.
"The terrorists have used a humvee in their attack. They have targeted the National Directorate of Security unit in Ghazni city," Wahidullah Jumazada, spokesman for the province's governor said, adding that 40 people were wounded.
The interior ministry in Kabul and a health official in Ghazni also confirmed the car bomb.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter that its insurgents had carried out the attack.
The bombing comes a day after President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a new power-sharing accord in Kabul, ending their bitter months-long feud.
The agreement overcomes one of the hurdles to negotiations with the Taliban, which warned Monday that talks cannot open until a piecemeal prisoner swap is completed.
"That which is taking place in Kabul is only a repetition of the past failed experiences," Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said on Twitter in what was the group's first reaction to the Ghani-Abdullah deal.
"Afghan sides should focus on real and sincere solution to the issue... The prisoners' release process should be completed and the intra-Afghan negotiations should start."
