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| India-Pakistan |
| Officials accuse Afghan consulates of sabotage plans |
| 2006-11-07 |
| Pakistani intelligence agencies — which accuse Afghanistan of sponsoring violence in Pakistann’s border provinces — have said that Thursdayy’s bomb attack in Quetta had “proven their accusations clearly”, reported Italian news agency AKI on Monday. Security officials said that they had traced “rogue elements” in the Afghan consulate in Karachi who were “planning similar acts of sabotage in Karachi”, according to the report. Police have rounded up 70 Uzbek Afghan nationals in Quetta, including 10 members of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, in connection with the attack. An Italian news agency’s spokesman quoted a senior Pakistani official as saying that the Afghan Foreign Ministry, under the aegis of Rangeen Dadfar, had “appointed some elements” in Pakistani consulates that were previously leaders of the Northern Alliance. “This specifically includes Tajik and Uzbek staff in the Karachi and Quetta consulates, which have been facilitating many acts of sabotage in the past, but the Quetta incident left us with clear evidence that Afghan intelligence, through its consulates, is involved in acts of sabotage in Pakistan,” said the official. |
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