Presidential candidate Dr Abdullah Abdullah. PHOTO: AFP
The denial came a day after Kabul accused "foreign intelligence services" -- a thinly veiled reference to Islamabad -- of being behind the two blasts, including a suicide bombing.
"We firmly reject any insinuation of Pakistan's involvement in the attack," Pakistan's foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said in a statement.
Abdullah survived the assassination attempt, which happened on Friday. The attack triggered strong international condemnation, including from the United States and the UN Security Council.
The National Security Council (NSC), which is chaired by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, had said the foreign agency had acted "through Lashkar-e-Taiba in an organised manner, and the terrorists were aiming to disrupt the election in Afghanistan".
"Pakistan is deeply disappointed by these irresponsible allegations as they serve to vitiate the positive environment created between the two countries through constructive efforts over the past many months," Aslam said.
Afghanistan has made similar claims following major attacks in the past, including the assault on the Serena Hotel that killed nine people in March.
"The latest allegations fall in the familiar pattern of certain elements in Afghanistan sparing no occasion to malign Pakistan and its security institutions and shifting the blame to others for their own security failures,” said Aslam.
She further added, "We are sure that neither the Afghan people, nor the international community, would be misled by these motivated allegations."
Afghanistan is in the middle of elections to choose a successor to Karzai, who has ruled since the fall of the 1996-2001 Taliban regime, with the run-off vote scheduled for June 14.
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The other day a mosquito bite into karzai. ..and he promptly blamed pakis for sending the mosquito in Afghanistan.
@Naeem Khan Manhattan,Ks: Pakistan lost half of its territory within 25 years of its formation,and today fighting for its existence.if you call such dismembered survival any cause of celebration than Pakistan indeed has survived.
@Naeem Khan Manhattan,Ks: So you accept that Pakistan will cease to exist after 100 years... Well, in 67 years of its history the east Pakistan vanished.
Keep your terrorists out of my country. Karma and God will punish you if you don't.
@Naeem Khan Manhattan,Ks:
I am Afghan and I am not too far from you. I can drive up if you want to meet?
@objective observer and NITS, Both of you don't have the guts enough to show your identity, both of you can't see that your own country India is terrorizing the Kashmiris and Assamies, their women folks are raped regularly and the young men are killed on daily basis by your so called security forces. You people monitor Pakistani papers and spew venom at Pakistanis. We also know that your country India, in cahoots with Afghanistan is brutalizing the people in Baluchistan and killing innocent people day in and day out. Look into your own house before writing hateful comments here. Karzai and Abdullah are the creation of a foreign country which has been occupying Afghanistan for the last 13 years, and if some patriotic Afghans do not like the occupiers or their agents and satraps, then the satraps should not blame others. Afghanistan's election was a farce because it was done under occupation of foreign countries, Afghans are not free people yet as long it is occupied by foreigners, why would any leadership of that country would want the occupiers(12,000 soldiers) to stay there even after 2014, the answer to this question is obious. By the way Pakistan has survived 67 years and will be here for another 100 years to come despite India's animosity and Indians ill will towards Pakistan so keep on dreaming.
@NITS: "Pak has become the troubled child of the world.. neither it wants to live peacefully nor it is letting its neighbours to live peacefully" On the contrary its troubles are the making of its neighbors. "Another partition of Pakistan' would not occur without unacceptable consequences for its neighbors. Take care.
Pakistan doesn't accept responsibility for the actions of Haqqani or LeT. They just water them on fertile land. Pakistan has no control of it's foreign policy or domestic security.
Pressed 'playback' button of denial mode early. Afghan mentioned hand of 'foreign intelligence' hand and Pakistan was not mentioned specifically. If you do not have any involvement , just keep quiet but now your Immediate response suggests otherwise.
Can you really blame them - Pakistan has a notorious history of interfering in Afghan internal affair and still actively provides support to the Haqqani who are dedicated to the overthrow of Kabul. Pakistan likes to talk about supporting Afghanistan but talks cheap and so long as you help the Haqqani there is zero chance of friendly relations.
Why should so many nations make the same allegations against Pakistan? Maybe introspection might be the order of the day. Then again, knowing Pakistan, maybe not. Denial is any day more expedient.
Why everyone in blaming pakistan