Pakistan denies role in Karzai attack

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.