Source: Kuwait Times

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday a suicide attack that wounded the country’s spy chief was planned in neighbouring Pakistan, and added he would raise the issue with Islamabad. The president did not openly blame Pakistan over the attack on Asadullah Khalid in Kabul on Thursday but said the Taleban would not have been able to carry out the bombing and that “bigger hands were involved”.

The Taleban had claimed responsibility for the attack on the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), which was carried out by an attacker posing as a Taleban peace envoy with a bomb hidden in his underwear. “We know that this man who came in the name of a guest to meet with Asadullah Khalid came from Pakistan. We know that for a fact. Read more