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Pakistan's involvement being speculated in Indian Embassy attack | Although the Taliban has claimed responsibility for Thursday's suicide
car blast outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 17 people, Pakistan
intelligence agency ISI's involvement in the attack cannot be ruled out. In July
of 2008, militants rammed the same embassy with a car bomb that killed 60 people.
Later, both US and India claimed that they had uncovered evidence that the agency
was in contact with the attackers. Experts point out that the pattern of blasts
suggests Pakistan 's involvement once again. "I would suggest this is the same
thing. Pakistan simply doesn't want any Indian presence in the region," the Christian
Science Monitor quoted Ajai Sahni, director of the Institute of Conflict Management
in New Delhi, as saying. Asked how that could impact India-Pakistan relations,
Dr. Sahni replied, "What relations? This is just a cyclical game. A new attack
doesn't change anything." However, some other analysts differ in opinion. "Given
the divide between Taliban and Pakistan in recent years, particularly since Pakistan
troops are fighting Taliban forces in Pakistan , I would rather see it as the
Taliban's own initiative," says Suba Chandran, assistant director of the Institute
for Peace and Conflict Studies. However, he seconds Sahni that if Pakistani elements
were involved it would barely register diplomatically, since the relationship
cannot get much worse. Pakistani intelligence has historically used Taliban-like
groups to advance its interests in Afghanistan and to put pressure on India .
But the Afghan-Taliban has its own antagonism against India , as India had supported
the Northern Alliance when the Taliban controlled Kabul . And since 2001, India
has contributed more than a billion dollars in aid to Afghanistan 's reconstruction.
Indian contractors are building infrastructure, while Indian experts are helping
train Afghanistan 's military officers.
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