Rabbani's killer was Pakistani: Karzai's office
Evidence shows that Rabbani's death last month "was plotted in Quetta and the person who carried out the suicide attack against Rabbani was a citizen of Pakistan," the statement said.
It added that the killer had been living in Chaman, a Pakistani border town near Quetta.
Karzai's government has been struggling to start talks with the Taliban in a bid to end the 10-year insurgency in Afghanistan but has made no meaningful progress.
Karzai's spokesman Siamak Herawi said Sunday that the president was reviewing his peace strategy, adding that he would reveal next steps "very soon".
The announcement from the presidential palace adds to the Afghan spy agency's recent statements to The Express Tribune claiming that Rabbani's assassination was plotted in Quetta.
“We have submitted to Pakistan’s Embassy in Kabul evidence, including names and addresses, of the people involved in the murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani,” Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesperson for Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) told The Express Tribune by phone from Kabul.
Rabbani was killed by a turban bomber impersonating a Taliban emissary on September 20 at the former’s house in the upscale Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood of Kabul.
Mashal said the mastermind has confessed to his involvement in the assassination. “The bomber was brought all the way from Quetta’s Satellite Town to Kabul by the mastermind who is in our custody,” he said.
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@Nadeem Ahmed: All Afghans who are now living in Western countries they have many commonalities with the people from the north. Northern alliance people are westernized, very liberal and majority of them are non practicing Muslims. Ethnically they are in minority consisting of Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. Where as Taliban are mainly Pahtunes. They practice tribal culture and also conservative type of Islam. The strict type of Islam based on Shariah is naturally not welcomed by liberal Afghans. What to say about Afghanistan even in Pakistan the Taliban style rule will not be welcomed in Pakistan. Hatred towards Pakistan is not for the reason that Pakistan is actually involved in any conspiracy against Afghanistan. It is because of the western propaganda and their hatred towards Taliban rule.
Thanks to Ziaul Haq, there are thousands of afghans who have Pakistani citizenship. That does not make them any more pakistani - but for these purposes they maybe very suitably Pakistani. I think Pakistan should cut off all borders to Afghanistan, and let's see how long they can survive. Shame on these ungrateful people, Pakistan supported them through thick and thin, Pakistan is economically crippled partly because of them and this is how they show their gratitude. Pakistan as a protest should sever all ties with them.
Pakistan can turn Afghanistan into glass.
It is possible Mr. Karzai, but seriously, who is ready to believe you and your administration?
i support the isi anytime and anyday i don't believe the allegation of this puppet president of afghanistan who him self was residing in quetta when the afghans were fighting wars against russia. i would like to have this evidence made public so that we can all know what the truth is.
@Nadeem Ahmed: I fully agree and they have valid reasons too
US puppet Kerzai again blame Pakistan for all of his failures in Afghanistan. A president who can’t go out form his place without US commandos and even can’t save life of his brother how take care of his own nation? Only this year record number of civilians lost their lives in Nato air strikes but their president is sitting silent and doing nothing to save lives of his own people. True reality is that Kerzai has lost his credibility even in his own people and people of his country just consider him puppet of USA who can do nothing without approval of Washington. True reality is that after ten years of Kezai rule his country people find nothing except deaths destruction and large number of civilian casualties even US authorities consider his government full of corruption and ideal relations with war lords and drug mafia.
@Nadeem Ahmed....if Afghanis hate pakistan so much then the 3 million afghanis are more then welcome to leave Pakistan. Why dont they do so?
Also, how does Karzai, the American puppet, know that the suicide bomber was a Pakistani citizen? This whole episode is a US drama to implicate Pakistan in anything that goes wrong in Afghanistan. The facts on the ground are simple: After spending 1 trillion dollars on a godforsaken country like Afghanistan the Americans are losing ground to the Taliban. They can blame whomever they want but no one can argue with the facts.
@ Amir Wayn, living and working very close to many Afghanis, I haven't met a single Afghani who likes Pakistan. I cannot forget the excitement, celeberations and joy on Afghani faces when Kabul fell to Northern Alliance, Many Afghanis would come forward to collect get $100 to do any task, but in reality they hate Pakistan.
@Naveed Alam Khattak: No I can't but one thing is certain.. We are the loser at the end. Afghanistan was messed up and will remain messed up. Pakistan will also sink with it. so choice is all unto us. Keep our heads buried or have an inner look and course correct.
@Zeff: The history of this region tells us that whenever there was a turmoil in Afghanistan it was Pakistan which always served as strategic depth to Afghanistan. Even today we are providing food and shelter to almost three million Afghans. During King Daud's period Burhan ud Din Rabbani was implicated in a case of mutiny and for many years he lived in Peshawar. Even today many Afghan leaders like Karzai, Rabbani and most of their ministers have their properties and business in Peshawar and Quetta. Its a land locked country and Pakistan has all along been providing them the life line. It is in the interest of Afghanistan to avoid blaming Pakistan and mend its fences with Pakistan instead of acting as a stooge and a proxy of CIA and RAW.
It is just US pressure part 2. For days of talks there were Talibans and Afghan officials supported by US and when things went wrong, failures blamed on Pakistan.
When has Karzai not used such "Opportunities " to make anti-Pakistan comments???
afghan and americans should wait in queue. Indians are waiting for the action to be taken for mumbai attack. after that its usa quota and then afghans.. pak ask for evidence, we will give evidence, and they say oh, its literature book..poor afghans and americans are hoping for action, we havent got one, we wish you all the best to afghans and americans :)
There is no doubt that the killer of peace-maker will be a Pakistani as pakistan strategic depth policy want an unstable Afghanistan. I agree with Afghan Intelligence Agency.
May be this guy had never seen any american that's why he is talking about "Interfering In Our Land".
Anyone knows how much does it cost to get a couple hundred people on the streets in Afghanistan and do a fake protest? As far as I know, it shouldn't cost more than $10.
Its not about the number of people in the picture; all non-pushtoon hate us; and they form over 55 percent of Afghans
I wonder ... how many of them read and write....... why did they need a Placard in English in a place torn up and ravaged with war for 30 long years?
@Rational Mind:
Do send them back but also return the aid taken from international agencies in the name of Afghan refugees but gone elsewhere.
The timing of Osama's assasination, the US embassy blast and the recent Killing of Mr. Rabbani.... they all fit in beautifully to create a hostile environment against Pakistan..... This is CIA at work... they are setting the scene for a show down. I shall not be surprised if there is a Blast in Bombay in a couple of days and Indians become hostile too..... Man this is too Good to be True!
How amazing. They can find that who was the attacker, where is it planned, and anything that happens in Pakistan, but are unable to find talibans in Afghanistan. Very Magical.
Here we go again. I can only hope that we learn from our mistakes. If we keep isolating ourselves by creating trouble in the region, whether its Afghanistan or India, who will be our friend? The whole world (except China) shunned us out at the time of our floods--only because of the imge which we created for ourselves as a country which festers terror. I hope we get our act right so our kids can have a bright future. Ameen.
Why Pakistani media giving some one like Karzai rhetoric so much importance.
I can count people on my fingers on the photo of protest.
I wonder where the strings to Karzai leads to.
@Was A Pakistani We say, we are not given any proof. Can u prove that. Now burden is on UUUUUUUUU.
So.......whether a Pakistani Pashtoon or Afghan Pashtoon, Karzai's statement proves that ISA had nothing to do with it.
Hope they inform their US friends as well !!
Merely 10-15 protesters evident in the photo! The Nato guy is there so he can make sure the protest takes place, he probably even helped these guys make the banner. What a joke! And these same guys probably think that Osama was thrown in the sea by US marines.....the sad thing is that this farce shall continue and only innocent people will be the victims.
A terrorist does not wear a turban and a beard, he wears a suit and tie.
Pakistan does not have a leg to stand on when they say that the Americans are interfering in the internal affairs of Pakistan.
@Buttjee spot on..you just stole my comments..it is just another act by Americans to use afghans as there proxy against pakistan..they will not talk about all this that how come he reached that highly secure area with the Bomb..all tactics of Americans..divide and rule..the act was actually done by Americans to use more pressure on Pakistan..
@Kashif: If he was not a Pakistani then Pakistan has to prove it now. they say they have given all the evidence... so burden now is on Pakistan. Hiding behind blame wont work
Now this is a new one?
we have thousands of people ready to witness that the 9/11 is a carried out by the Israil and american... but who cares... we have thousands of evidences that US is here to unstable pakistan but who cares about these evidences... Now any evidence against pakistan is mean less, its a war and everything is fair here. We are awake to the dangerous game being played by US and the Israili zoanist to unstable Pakistan.
The poor Afghans are right for complaining about foreign interference - but the complain should not only be regarding Pakistan but include other nations too. We have sympathies with Afghan citizens in this regard as Pakistan too is a victim of foreign interference particularly by USA, Britiain and Saudi Arabia.
dear
after osama death nobody wants to live in pak
abt rabbani death
people are suffering from mental health because no peace in pak
so its wrong rabbani wants peace everyone want peace
The killer was basically Afghan who was living in Pakistan.
The message is very clear for Pakistan:
Send back all Afghanis living in Pakistan so that they will not be able to say that killer was pakistani
@buttjee: your sources told you that?
Although the other side of me..really hates what Pak have done to Afghanistan...
Another Ajmal Kassab in the making. Geo TV get ready to embarrass Pakistan again. The one exposed last time was seen saying "Bhagwan" pardon me and our channels insist he was Pakistani.
The bomber who killed Rabbani, was interviewed by the Afghan intelligence chief and then was lodged in the VIP guest house while Rabbani was away on a visit to Dubai. The bomber stayed in a highly guarded high security area of Kabul for a number of days before he exploded his turban bomb on Rabbani. Obviously it was a plain and simple security failure of the Afghan intelligence. To cover up their failure they concoct all sorts of allegations but this type of approach will not help them. It will be better for them to join hands with Pakistan and engage the Taliban in a meaningful dialogue to broker peace for Afghanistan.
Handful amount of people does not represent Afghan nation. I beleive every participant must have been given $100 for marching and raising slogan against Pakistan. Not a bad deal
Would be interesting if the media gets access to this evidence. The mastermind must be a genius that he would give his name, contact details etc. before the killing. Somehow, something doesnt fit....
So be it ...
very well planed by USA, normal Pakistani ppl have no hate for any afghani ppl but USA may be force to karzai to make this statement to make enemy for PAK as USA is depressed tht china is helping PAK. so USA take revenge and USA dont want peace in Afghanistan so their forces can stay in Afghanistan.