Pakistan denies Indian bomb charge

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 14 (UPI) -- Pakistan's defense minister denied India's charge that his country's spy agency was involved in last week's Indian Embassy bomb attack in Afghanistan.

Speaking in Islamabad, Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said it was unfair of India to blame Pakistan without solid evidence, Dawn newspaper reported.

The minister also said the allegation wouldn't affect relations, which have been on the mend in recent years, between the two nuclear neighbors.

The charge against Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence was made by Indian National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, who said there had been a fair amount of intelligence inputs about ISI's involvement in last week's suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul. Dozens of people died in the attack.

Pakistani Information Minister Sherry Rehman also denied the Indian allegation, the Dawn report said.