LeT denies any link with Herat attack

Karzai says he was informed that LeT was responsible for assault on Indian consulate which left 2 policemen wounded.

SRINAGAR: The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) denied on Monday that it was behind an attack last week by gunmen on an Indian diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that he had been informed by a Western intelligence agency that the LeT was responsible for the assault on the Indian consulate in Herat which left two policemen wounded.

“Hamid Karzai’s claim is not based on truth. We condemn the attack,” said a man identifying himself as LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi. “Our operations are limited to Jammu and Kashmir alone, and these will continue until the dawn of freedom for the territory,” he said from an undisclosed location.

The LeT has been active in Indian Kashmir since the early 1990s. India and Western intelligence agencies believe the group perpetrated the 2008 attacks on Mumbai which left 166 people dead. The LeT has denied responsibility.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 28^th, 2014.