Wed, Jul 9 08:58 PM
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Afghanistan has shared its initial findings with India that point to the involvement of 'a foreign intelligence agency' in the suicide bombing at the Indian mission that killed 54 people, the Indian ambassador said Wednesday.
'President Hamid Karzai has made a statement saying those opposed to India-Afghan friendship are behind the attack. The Afghan interior ministry has made a statement saying a foreign intelligence agency is involved. They have shared their findings with us bilaterally,' ambassador Jayant Prasad told IANS over telephone from Kabul.
He declined to speculate on the identity of the perpetrators of the July 7 attack on the Indian embassy in which a diplomat, the defence attache, two Indian security personnel and an Afghan employee of the mission were among those killed.
It was the worst suicide attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. It was also the bloodiest attack on any Indian mission anywhere.
'The enemies of the development of Afghanistan are behind this attack,' Prasad said. 'India is in the heart of every Afghan. We will not be deterred from the development work we are doing in this country,' he added.
'Investigations are on and we will know soon,' said the envoy, adding the death toll in the attack had climbed to 54. The dead included 17 students.
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