India blames Pakistan militants for Kabul attack

[desiman]

'India blames Pakistan militants for Kabul attack'


Thu Apr 1, 5:03 am ET
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India blames Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for an attack that killed seven of its citizens in Kabul on February 26, a government source said Thursday.

"The LeT is responsible. We have no doubt about that," the source told reporters on condition of anonymity.

He said the group, which India also holds responsible for the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 that left 166 people dead, operated out of Kunar province, northeast of Kabul.

In a call to AFP last month, an LeT spokesman denied any involvement in the February attacks, which saw gunmen launch a bomb and gun assault on hotels in the Afghan capital that killed 17 people in total.

The spokesman said the group had no network in Afghanistan.
Analysts believe India and Pakistan, implacable South Asian rivals, are locked in a new struggle for influence in Afghanistan, which is fuelling attacks on Indian interests there.

New Delhi has poured money into Afghanistan and has become an influential partner of the government in Kabul after giving 1.3 billion dollars in foreign aid.

India says the LeT has links with and support from the Pakistani army and intelligence services -- accusations strongly denied by the government in Islamabad.

Indian officials in Kabul have said a December 15 suicide car bombing that killed eight people also targeted Indians, although former Afghan first vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud had a home in the same street.

In other attacks, the Indian embassy was hit on October 8 last year, with the deaths of 17 people, and on July 7, 2008 when more than 60 people were killed.

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[desiman]

India 'blames Pakistan militants' for Kabul attack
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India blames Pakistan-based militants for an attack on its citizens in Kabul in February, a government source said Thursday, heightening concern about a South Asian "proxy war" in Afghanistan.

The well-placed source, who asked not to be named, said the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was responsible for the attack that killed seven Indians in a gun and bomb assault in Kabul on February 26.

Analysts say India and Pakistan are locked in a struggle for influence in Afghanistan, which could bring new instability to the war-wracked country as US-led international troops eye their exit after mid-2011.

"The LeT is responsible. We have no doubt about that," the Indian government source told reporters, referring to a group that New Delhi believes to be funded and supported by the Pakistani army and intelligence services.

India also blames the LeT for the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 that left 166 people dead and badly strained already acrimonious ties with Pakistan. The LeT and the Pakistani government deny involvement.

Indian interests in Afghanistan have been repeatedly targeted. Its embassy was bombed in October last year and on July 7, 2008, which some analysts say is a deliberate campaign to encourage New Delhi to pull out.

Indian officials in Kabul also believe a December 15 suicide car bombing that killed eight people also targeted Indians, although former Afghan first vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud had a home in the same street.

New Delhi has poured money into Afghanistan and has become an influential partner of the government in Kabul -- to the growing concern of Islamabad, which sees Afghanistan as its backyard and a strategic partner.

In a call to AFP last month, a LeT spokesman denied carrying out the February Kabul attacks and said that the group had no network in Afghanistan.

The Indian government source alleged on Thursday that the LeT was operating out of Kunar province, northeast of Kabul.

Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought three wars since partition of the subcontinent in 1947 and remain at loggerheads over the disputed region of Kashmir, which they administer jointly but claim in full.

Despite the repeated attacks on Indians in Afghanistan, New Delhi remains "engaged and committed in Afghanistan," the source, who was authorised to brief reporters on government policy, said.

"We will be there in Afghanistan as long as the Afghans want us there," he said, pointing to the close historical and cultural links between the two countries.

New Delhi, which has repeatedly urged the global community to "stay the course" in Afghanistan, is worried about Pakistan and the Islamist Taliban assuming key roles once foreign troops begin their pullout.

"Obviously we are concerned about any cut-and-run," the source said, referring to plans by the US-led forces in Afghanistan to start their draw-down from July 2011.

"The Taliban are emboldened by the international community seeking an early exit," he said.

"We are also definitely concerned that efforts are on to outsource peace and stability to a country (Pakistan) that is responsible for causing this mess in Afghanistan," the source added.

About 4,000 Indians are building roads, sanitation projects and power lines in the volatile country. India is also building the new Afghan parliament.

On Wednesday, a Mumbai court finished hearings in the trial of a Pakistani accused of being the sole surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab.

The public prosecutor in the trial, Ujjwal Nikam, believes that he has overwhelmingly proved the links between 22-year-old Kasab, the LeT and the Pakistani army. A verdict is due on May 3.

The LeT is also accused of targeting Indian security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir and was also blamed for an attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001 that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.

India 'blames Pakistan militants' for Kabul attack - Inform

 

[desiman]

India Blames Pakistan Militants For Kabul Attack - Source


NEW DELHI (AFP)--India blames Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, or LeT, for an attack that killed seven of its citizens in Kabul on Feb. 26, a government source said Thursday.

"The LeT is responsible," the source said. "We have no doubt about that."

India Blames Pakistan Militants For Kabul Attack - Source

 

[mr42O]

'India blames Pakistan militants for Kabul attack'


Thu Apr 1, 5:03 am ET
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India blames Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for an attack that killed seven of its citizens in Kabul on February 26, a government source said Thursday.

"The LeT is responsible. We have no doubt about that," the source told reporters on condition of anonymity.

He said the group, which India also holds responsible for the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 that left 166 people dead, operated out of Kunar province, northeast of Kabul.

In a call to AFP last month, an LeT spokesman denied any involvement in the February attacks, which saw gunmen launch a bomb and gun assault on hotels in the Afghan capital that killed 17 people in total.

The spokesman said the group had no network in Afghanistan.
Analysts believe India and Pakistan, implacable South Asian rivals, are locked in a new struggle for influence in Afghanistan, which is fuelling attacks on Indian interests there.

New Delhi has poured money into Afghanistan and has become an influential partner of the government in Kabul after giving 1.3 billion dollars in foreign aid.

India says the LeT has links with and support from the Pakistani army and intelligence services -- accusations strongly denied by the government in Islamabad.

Indian officials in Kabul have said a December 15 suicide car bombing that killed eight people also targeted Indians, although former Afghan first vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud had a home in the same street.

In other attacks, the Indian embassy was hit on October 8 last year, with the deaths of 17 people, and on July 7, 2008 when more than 60 people were killed.

'India blames Pakistan militants for Kabul attack' - Yahoo! News

We have no dout and not any evidence either. We just dream about this. We saw it in bollywood move....

 

[evolutionist]

We have no dout and not any evidence either. We just dream about this. We saw it in bollywood move....

Intelligence reports indicate:
Initial speculation, based on past trajectories, lent credibility to the idea that the attack was engineered by the Haqqani faction of the Taliban, at the behest of the ISI. Afghan intelligence officials leading the investigations, however, quickly found that the top leadership of both the Taliban and al Qaeda were ignorant of the attack for more than five hours after its initiation. Afghan investigators found a trail that led directly to Pakistan and to the ISI's currently preferred terrorist formation, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Afghan security officials soon confirmed the responsibility of the ISI-LeT combine. Saeed Ansari, a spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service, on March 2, disclosed that his agency had evidence that Pakistanis, specifically LeT, were involved in the attacks. "We are very close to the exact proof and evidence that the attack on the Indian guest house ... is not the work of the Afghan Taliban, but this attack was carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba network, who are dependent on the Pakistan military." Ansari also noted that the February 26 Kabul attacks bore similarities to two suicide bombings at the Indian embassy in Kabul in 2008 and 2009, and the car bomb attack in January at a residential hotel in one of the safest neighbourhoods in the capital, Kabul. Ansari further stated that the Taliban lacked the logistical capabilities for the attack, since the gunmen appeared to have detailed knowledge, including names, of Indian guests at the hotels. "This kind of information, where the Indians are, is not the ability of the Afghan Taliban to know," Ansari insisted. He also claimed that the Taliban "had no knowledge" of the Kabul attacks at least five hours after they started. Investigators also established that the attackers spoke Urdu, not Pashto or Dari. Sources also indicated that the staff at the targeted guesthouses generally comprised Pakistani nationals who were recruited by the Kabul ISI station to keep tabs on the Indian residents.

Crucially, the style of the attack was very different from past suicide attacks on the Indian establishment in Kabul. Unlike previous suicide attacks on the Indian embassy, the latest attack was the ‘trademark’ LeT-style assault, using explosives to bring down defences and then launching a small-arms raid, hunting for specific targets, particularly Indian nationals, similar to the November 26, 2008, Mumbai attacks. Confirming this, the Indian Ambassador in Kabul, Jayant Prasad, noted, "It was a 26/11 type of attack. The attackers searched each and every room and killed people." Further, sources revealed that the terrorists searched a senior Indian Foreign Service Officer’s room at Park Residence several times and even lobbed in grenades, because they thought he could be hiding inside. When they did not find him in the room, the terrorists spoke to their handlers over their mobile phones to notify his absence, a pattern significantly similar to the LeT cadre’s modus operandi on 26/11.

Though LeT’s global presence is now widely acknowledged, the ISI had not previously used the group to target Indian establishments outside Indian soil. In Afghanistan, Indian targets had earlier been hit by ISI using its preferred anti-India Afghan terrorist faction – the Haqqani network. India, US and Afghanistan investigators had recovered clinching evidence that the July 2008 and October 2009 Indian Embassy suicide bombings were orchestrated by the Haqqani network, under real-time operational control of the ISI. In an effort to create a measure of ambiguity, the ISI chose to utilize the LeT to target Indian interests in Afghanistan. The move is also part of ISI's design to keep the pressure on Indian projects and presence in the country, and also skirt around the handicap of US pressure against the Haqqani network’s operations on Afghan soil at a time when Islamabad is eager to ‘repackage’ its proxies as the ‘good Taliban’, for inclusion in the power structure at Kabul.

Indian projects and nationals in Afghanistan remain vulnerable to the Pakistan-backed terrorist enterprise because of its large presence in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country. India has a huge assistance programme for Afghanistan’s reconstruction. Since 2002, after the defeat of the Taliban regime, India has pledged over USD 1.3 billion aid to Afghanistan, making India the fifth largest donor nation, after the US, UK, Japan and Canada. In the 2010-11 Indian budget, a total of INR 2.9 billion has been allocated for various aid programmes to Afghanistan. Indian engagement in Afghanistan has focused on long-term economic stabilization, institution-building and social welfare, as well as a commitment to integrate Kabul into the South Asian framework. With Indian involvement in developmental works steadily increasing, some 4,000-5,000 Indian nationals are currently working on several reconstruction projects across Afghanistan. The Indian Embassy at Kabul notes: "India has undertaken projects virtually in all parts of Afghanistan, in a wide range of sectors, including hydro-electricity, power transmission lines, road construction, agriculture and industry, telecommunications, information and broadcasting, education and health, which have been identified by the Afghan Government as priority areas for development." In January 2009, India handed over the 218 kilometre Zaranj-Delaram highway, constructed at a cost of USD 266 million, linking Kabul with Iran and, more importantly, with the Iranian port of Chabahar, to facilitate movement of goods and commodities across an alternative route from the links through Pakistan, which are periodically held at ransom by the Pakistan establishment and their terrorist proxies. The construction work on the Zaranj-Delaram highway was disrupted repeatedly due to Pakistan's denial of all transit facilities from India to Afghanistan through its territory. The project was also opposed by the Pakistan-backed Taliban, who relentlessly attempted to block work by attacking and killing Indian nationals. Some of the more prominent attacks directly targeting work on the Zaranj-Delaram highway project included:

 

[FreekiN]

Yadda yadda yadda. Everything involving India, has Pakistan involved in it. yadda yadda.

 

[Imran Khan]

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[DESERT FIGHTER]

Another pile of horse pucky by bollywood goofs.

 

[Star Trek]

Ofcourse pakistani members and ministers blame India with 100% proof without an iota of doubt ??

 

[desiman]

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SAMAJ NEHI AYA BHAIJAN

 

[ahmed_naj]

Crucially, the style of the attack was very different from past suicide attacks on the Indian establishment in Kabul. Unlike previous suicide attacks on the Indian embassy, the latest attack was the ‘trademark’ LeT-style assault, using explosives to bring down defences and then launching a small-arms raid, hunting for specific targets, particularly Indian nationals, similar to the November 26, 2008, Mumbai attacks. Confirming this, the Indian Ambassador in Kabul, Jayant Prasad, noted, "It was a 26/11 type of attack. The attackers searched each and every room and killed people." Further, sources revealed that the terrorists searched a senior Indian Foreign Service Officer’s room at Park Residence several times and even lobbed in grenades, because they thought he could be hiding inside. When they did not find him in the room, the terrorists spoke to their handlers over their mobile phones to notify his absence, a pattern significantly similar to the LeT cadre’s modus operandi on 26/11.

doesn't prove jack ****, similar type of attacks (bomb then shoot) have happened in pakistan aswell ---- I bet ISI planned those as well . Furthermore, similar planned attacks have been foiled in gulf counteries aswell and they werent planned by LeT.

What retard of a handler would be speaking to the asset knowing fully well they capability of SIGINT thesedays.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

No Evidence to Link LeT to 2009 Attack: DG ISPR​

Pakistani authorities have no evidence linking the Lashkar-e-Taiba to the 2009 suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul or suggesting that the banned group has "global aspirations", the country's chief military spokesman has said.

"There is no evidence that the LeT has global aspirations or was involved in the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul," Maj Gen Athar Abbas, the head of the Inter-Services Public Relations, said during an interaction with a group of Indian journalists, CNN-IBN reported.

The LeT is a "banned group that is being contained", he said without giving details.

There is also no evidence with Pakistani authorities linking the LeT to militant groups operating in Pakistan's tribal areas, Abbas said in response to questions.

At the same time, Abbas said that militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri, described by Indian and US officials as a key suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks, had played an "instrumental" role in planning an attack on the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in October 2009.

Kashmiri was also involved in two attempts to assassinate former President and Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf in late 2003, Abbas said.

He indicated that Kashmiri, who led a "splinter" group or breakaway faction of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was working with the local Taliban.

Earlier this month, the US announced a reward of five million dollars for anyone who provides information and helps in the arrest of Kashmiri, the commander of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami terror group that supports Al Qaeda.

During a visit to Islamabad last week, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen said the LeT is more than an anti-India terror group as it has "global aspirations" and had extended its reach to the West.

Abbas was also asked about efforts by Pakistani authorities to prosecute the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks and he said this was primarily the job of the Interior Ministry.

"A splinter group was involved and we have collected the maximum evidence," he said.

LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was "heading the splinter group" responsible for the terrorist assault on India's financial hub in November 2008, he said.

Authorities are now following the due process of law to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice, he said.

Responding to specific questions about the alleged involvement of Pakistani army personnel in the attacks, Abbas did not rule out the possibility that some retired officers could have been linked to the incident. Abbas dismissed reports about the alleged involvement of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency in the incident, saying, "Nothing could be further from the truth."

He added, "We realise we are in the line of fire. We are taking steps to prevent events like Mumbai attacks and the botched car bombing at Times Square in New York."

Asked whether the Pakistani armed forces had evidence to back up the civilian government's allegation that India was fomenting unrest in Balochistan province, Abbas made a guarded response and said "no insurgency could survive without sanctuary and material support" from outside the country.

Without naming India, he indicated that elements in Afghanistan were backing Baloch nationalist groups. "These are rag-tag groups and they need money and resources," he said.

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[Safriz]

GOP should print an official letter pad with a big middle finger printed on it and instead of using words and giving statements , send the blaming gits the middle finger. They not gona read or listen any statement,wont come up with solid proof,middle finge is now the best respone.

 

[Secret Service]

Aadat se majbur han becharey ....!

 

[Safriz]

In addition to that GOP is responsible for protecting embassies inside Pakistan not outside. In Kabul Afghan govt is responsible for security of foreign diplomats,if they failed,why pakistan should be blamed? No country in the world can track and keep watch of each andevery of their citizens,Pakistan cannot track all 160 million pakistanis.Its unrealistic to expect pakistani govt to track every criminal mind of pakistani origin. If you cant take care of yourself,dont blame pakistan