Pakistan dismisses Karzai's allegations of attacking Afghan spy chief

Foreign Ministry statement says Afghanistan should share evidence on the attack.


December 08, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday dismissed allegations leveled by the Afghan government regarding the terrorist attack on its intelligence chief in Kabul.

The foreign office, in a statement issued in response to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's statement, urged Kabul to share evidence before leveling any charges.

President Karzai alleged that the recent assassination attempt on National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Asadullah Khalid was carried out by a suicide bomber from Pakistan. The attack seriously wounded the Afghan official.

Pakistan urged Afghanistan to order an investigation into the security lapses around the NDS chief.

"Before leveling charges, the Afghan Government would do well if they shared information or evidence with the government of Pakistan that they might have with regard to the cowardly attack on the head of NDS," the FO statement said.

"They would also do well by ordering an investigation into any lapses in the security arrangements around the NDS chief."

The Foreign Office said on its part, the government of Pakistan was ready to assist any investigation of this criminal act.

COMMENTS (24)

Arindom | 11 years ago | Reply

@Grille Grille: you answered your own question: $10 m bounty was put by US because he has been proved a terrorist. Just go out of your country, mate - see how they grill every Pakistani at every international airport!!

Grille Grille | 11 years ago | Reply

@arindom: "to the rest of the world Pakistani terrorism has been proved beyond doubt."

Typical Indian garbage. You people couldn't prove Hafiz Saeed's hand in the Mumbai attacks despite the $10 million bounty on him, and you blamed the Samjhauta Express torching on Pakistan until it turned out your own state actors did it, who are now free men. If you think "Pakistani terrorism" has been "proven beyond doubt" then it is your own threshold of "beyond doubt" that is very low.

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