Pakistan denies role in Karzai attack

Published: June 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Afghanistan donor conference in Paris

KABUL, Pakistan, June 27 (UPI) -- Pakistan has strongly denied that it had anything to do with the attempted assassination of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Accusations by Afghan officials, Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said, were "untrue, baseless" and politically motivated, The Washington Post reported.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said his government had information the April plot to kill Karzai had been hatched by Afghan security authorities.

Afghan security forces rounded up more than 100 suspects in the Karzai attack with 16 Afghans, half of them government employees, admitting involvement.

Tensions between uneasy neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan have flared in recent weeks as Tailban insurgents increased violent attacks on both.

© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Order reprints



Additional News Stories
Workers dig through trash to find rings (<1 min)
Movie subtitles improve foreign speech (2 min)
New idea offered to fight climate change (5 min)
Man claiming to be a killer arrested (14 min)
Horse poop excluded from scooping law (16 min)
Bra unrolls into putting mat (30 min)
Intellectually disabled need health ed (31 min)
fark
The coolest photo of Devils Tower you've seen since your routine training flight went missing in...
Find yourself recently single and with no clue how to proceed? You are in luck. Come on out to the...
Remember when New London took those homes and the Supreme Court said it was OK because they had...
The deep-sea crab that eats trees....who knew you can grow trees at the bottom of the ocean
Photoshop these masks
New Jersey judge allows quadriplegic man to buy guns. "He plans to mount the gun on his wheelchair...