Pakistani authorities have no evidence linking the Laskhar-e-Tayyaba to the 2009 suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul or suggesting that the banned group has “global aspirations”, the country’s chief military spokesman has said. “There is no evidence that the LeT has global aspirations or was involved in the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul,” Maj Gen Athar Abbas, the head of the Inter-Services Public Relations, said during an interaction with a group of Indian journalists, CNN-IBN reported. The LeT is a “banned group that is being contained”, he said without giving details.
There is also no evidence with Pakistani authorities linking the LeT to militant groups operating in the Tribal Areas, Abbas said in response to questions. At the same time, Abbas said militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri, described by Indian and US officials as a key suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks, had played an “instrumental” role in planning an attack on the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in October 2009.
