41 killed in Kabul suicide strike at Indian embassy
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Four Indians, including the defense attache, were among those killed. Most of those killed or wounded were Afghans waiting in line to apply for visas to India.
President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and said it was aimed at destroying relations between India and Afghanistan. He intimated Pakistan was behind the attack. “The president strongly condemned the terrorist attack against the Indian embassy in Kabul and considers it the work of enemies of Afghanistan-India friendship," Karzai said in a statement released by his office.
During the reign of the Taliban in the 1990s, Pakistan backed the extremists, who served as “strategic depth” against India. India backed the Northern Alliance, a grouping of anti-Taliban fighters based out of northern Afghanistan. The Taliban have targeted Indian road crews and aid workers inside Afghanistan in the past.
The Taliban denied being behind the Kabul attack. "We have not done this," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the media.
With the way news travels, we probably will find out who was responsible within days if not within hours.
“The Taliban denied being behind the attack.”
This might actually be true. As Karzai intimated, Pakistan would have an interest in damaging relations between India and Pakistan. Also as has been reported elsewhere, there seem to be subversive elements in the Pakistan intelligence services and perhaps elsewhere.