Karzai condemned the attack and vowed to "stand against America" in what may signal a broader political backlash that may endanger the USA military mission in Afghanistan.
According to the U.S. Forces Afghanistan, the bomb was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time (02:58 GMT) Thursday on a tunnel complex in Achin district of Nangarhar province.
Last year, B-52 bombers operating out of Qatar flew at least two missions in Afghanistan for the first time since 2006. The device is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the Pentagon's arsenal.
Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani gave a toll of 90, far higher than the initial toll of 36 IS fighters given by Afghan officials.
The statement by the spokesperson for the governor of Nangarhar came after an Afghan Ministry of Defense official said on Friday that ongoing clearance and assessment of the bomb site in the Achin district of Nangarhar indicated that the number of dead could rise.
But the group has been steadily losing ground in the face of heavy pressure both from United States air strikes and a ground offensive led by Afghan forces. An Air Force spokeswoman, Erika A. Yepsen, said the bomb was made "in-house", with some parts manufactured by the Air Force itself, so the overall cost is only an estimate.
He added: 'This is not the war on terror but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country as testing ground for new and unsafe weapons. He told United States lawmakers the current troop level was insufficient and there was a "shortfall of a few thousand" advisers to train the Afghans. The effect was it set off bombs of mines. "We also ask the Kabul government to use even stronger weapons against them".
In an interview with The New York Times, hours after he said he meant to work toward "ousting the U.S.", a fuming Karzai said there was no justification for the United States to drop the powerful bomb in Afghanistan.
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The Afghan government said it had worked with the USA military to coordinate the bomb strike, a sharp escalation of the US fight against Islamic State in Afghanistan. This is a country of free speech'.
It was the first time that Islamic State had officially spread outside the Arab world.
An Afghan police medic treats an injured policeman who was wounded in a military operation against suspected Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province, in eastern Afghanistan, April 14, 2017.
The US military was quizzed Friday on whether the 21,600-pound behemoth, known as the "mother of all bombs" for its extraordinary force, was necessary for that particular target.
As the Kabul government, split between Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah under a US-brokered power-sharing deal, remains fragile, Karzai's political interventions draw close attention.
Karzai, the most popular politician in the Afghan Pashtun community, questioned his successor, President Ashraf Ghani, for a decision to allow the controversial bombing.
"This was the right weapon for the right target", said U.S. Gen. John W. Nicholson, NATO commander in Afghanistan, at a news conference.
The war in Afghanistan has largely slipped from public consciousness, replaced by the conflict in Syria and ongoing tensions over North Korea, but there are still around 8,400 USA troops in the country engaged in counterterrorism operations.
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