Pakistan agents behind Kabul bomb - Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today that Pakistani agents were behind the Indian embassy bombing in Kabul last week.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today that Pakistani agents were behind the Indian embassy bombing in Kabul last week.

Afghan officials had previously said that the July 7th suicide attack, which killed 58 people, bore all the hallmarks of a foreign intelligence agency.

Afghanistan has already blamed Pakistan for a string of attacks, including an assassination bid on Mr Karzai in April and a June assault on a prison that freed some 400 militants.

Mr Karzai last month threatened to send troops into Pakistan to fight militants there if Islamabad failed to take action.

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Pakistani agents were behind the embassy attack, the beheading of two Afghans in Pakistan last month, the killing of two women in Afghanistan's Ghazni province and 24 people in a suicide bomb in Uruzgan province on Sunday, Mr Karzai said.

"Now this has become clear. And we have told the government of Pakistan that the killings of people in Afghanistan, the destruction of bridges in Afghanistan . . . are carried out by Pakistan's intelligence and Pakistan's military departments," Mr Karzai told reporters.

The Afghan president said he favoured good ties with Pakistan, but added there were "elements in Pakistan's intelligence and Pakistan's army" who did not want a stable Afghanistan.

Afghanistan believes Pakistan is secretly helping Taliban insurgents as a strategic asset to counter Indian influence, keep the war-torn country weak and thereby allow Pakistani forces to concentrate on defending the border with India.

Reuters