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| Pakistan denies Karzai murder plan was hatched in Pakistan |
| 2008-05-01 |
| Pakistan on Wednesday denied allegations that a plot to kill Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a military parade over the weekend was hatched in its Tribal Areas, AP reported. Afghan intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh earlier said the plot was hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The militants involved in the weekend plot were in phone contact with people in Pakistan’s Bajaur and North Waziristan tribal agencies and Peshawar, he said. Pakistan Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas said the allegation appeared ‘baseless’. “Anybody can say that militants [in the Tribal Areas] have done this or that,” Abbas said. “How can one validate such claims?” he questioned. However, Saleh said there was no evidence that Pakistan’s government or its intelligence agencies were involved in the assassination attempt on Sunday. “We have no evidence whether ... the operation has had any mercy or go-ahead from the Government of Pakistan and [its] special agencies,” he told reporters in Kabul. “There [is] very, very strong evidence suggesting that Pakistan’s soil once again has been used to inflict pain on our nation.” Separately, Afghan security forces raided a Taliban hideout in Kabul, sparking a battle that left seven people dead, including two militants involved in the attack, and a woman and a child, AFP reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |