Recent terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, were among the deadliest we have seen from the Taliban in a few years. As usual, most of the victims are ordinary Afghans, innocent women and children. Indiscriminate bomb blasts and suicide attacks by the Taliban always angered the Afghan authorities.

Since 2001 when the Taliban was toppled by the US-led international coalition, they moved to areas where they revived and started a bloody war against the Afghan government and international forces.

According to information provided by United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama), more than 1,600 Afghans died and 3,329 were injured in the first six months of 2015.

It has damaged the already weak economy, which is heavily reliant on foreign aid.

After the death of Mullah Omar, former leader of the Taliban, it is believed that disagreements between them emerged, but it seems those disagreements did not affect their ability to continue deadly attacks.

As the Taliban has proven through their actions, they do not care about the lives of innocent Afghans and they see spreading terror among people as a tool to weaken the legitimate government.

Historically, India has been friendly to Afghans. A hydroelectric plant near Herat, a city in Western Afghanistan, is being built with the help of India, which will be able to generate 42 megawatts of electricity and irrigate 70,000 hectare of fields.

After President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani took office he made unprecedented attempts to win Pakistan’s trust in order to help bring peace to Afghanistan, but obviously the recent violent attacks disappointed him and there was not any change of policy from the Pakistani side.

As long as the Taliban and other terrorist groups’ sanctuaries are not destroyed inside the country and in surrounding countries, and extremist training schools are not closed in the region, bringing peace in Afghanistan will be very difficult.

The Taliban is not only destabilising Afghanistan. Pakistani civilians had to pay the heavy price as well. The school massacre in Peshawar last year, which Taliban took responsibility for, proved that they are an enemy of all civilians in the region.

- The reader is an Afghan freelance writer based in Dubai.