Embassy attack: Afghanistan hints at ISI, Pak denies role

KABUL: Indicating the possible involvement of Pakistan's ISI in the deadly suicide blast at the Indian embassy here, Afghan authorities on Tuesday said preliminary investigations revealed the terrorists had received training and logistic support from "across the border".

"We believe firmly that there is a particular intelligence agency behind it," President Hamid Karzai's spokesman Homayun Hamizada told reporters here but refrained from naming any country. He said it was "pretty obvious" whom he was referring to.

"The sophistication of this attack and the kind of material that was used ... everything has the hallmarks of a particular agency that has conducted similar attacks inside Afghanistan. We have sufficient evidence to say that," he said.

A report prepared by the Afghan Ministry of Defence said terrorists had entered the country after receiving training and logistical support from across the border, an obvious reference to Pakistan.

"The terrorists no doubt could not have succeeded in launching such an atrocity without full support of foreign intelligence," according to a summary of an Afghan cabinet meeting chaired by Karzai.

Pakistan denies involvement in Kabul bombing

Pakistan's Prime Minister denied on Tuesday that its intelligence service was behind the attack on India's embassy in Kabul that killed 41 people, including four Indians.

Speaking in Malaysia, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said his country has no interest in destabilizing Afghanistan when both countries are fighting the common enemy of Islamic terrorism.

A suicide car bomb ripped through the gates of the Indian Embassy on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding nearly 150 others. The blast was the deadliest in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.