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ANOTHER DRONE FIRES MISSILES IN AFGHANISTAN DAYS AFTER AL-QAEDA CHIEF'S KILLING IN U.S. MISSION

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 8/8/2022 12:50:22 PM

Ghazni,Aug 07 Days after a US drone strike killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, another drone fired missiles in the Andaro area of Ghazni Province in Afghanistan and it seems that this one is also a HVT (High Value Target). A High-Value Target (HVT) is a target (a person or resource) that an enemy requires for completion of a mission. The term has been widely used in the media for Osama Bin Laden and high-ranking officers of AlQaeda and are considered essential to the completion of enemy operations. Taliban seems to have no information regarding the same. In a tweet, Sumaira Khan, a defence analyst of a media outlet wrote, "Reportedly another drone fired missiles aiming at high profile foreign-hailing target at Andaro area of Ghazni Saturday evening. The Taliban said there is no info on the nature of target." Another journalist Mushtaq Yusufzai confirmed the incident citing Taliban sources. "Taliban sources in Afghanistan said a drone fired missiles and hit a target in Andaro area of Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Saturday evening. Taliban said there is no information about the target but believed to be foreigners," he wrote. US President Joe Biden in a televised address on Monday announced that Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an air strike by the United States stating that "Justice has been delivered." al-Zawahiri was one of the world's most wanted terrorists and a mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks was killed in a drone strike carried out by the US in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday