ISI not involved in Rabbani assassination: Pakistan

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Pakistan strongly rejected on Sunday what it said were “baseless” allegations of the Afghan interior minister of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)’s involvement in the assassination of Afghan High Peace Council chairman Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani.
A Foreign Office (FO) statement said Rabbani was a great friend of Pakistan and widely respected. He had lived in Pakistan for a long time and had many friends here, the FO said. “The so-called evidence given to the Pakistan embassy in Kabul is actually a confessional statement of an Afghan national Hamidullah Akundzadeh accused of masterminding the assassination,” the FO said, adding that the authority concerned would work upon this piece of information.
The FO said the Afghan interior minister had not highlighted the fact that the assassin and his handler had been roaming around in Kandahar and Kabul for quite some time. “Also, the Afghan interior minister did not say that the assassin had been four days in the guest house of the High Peace Council managed by Afghans close to Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani,” it said. The FO said further that the assassin was also apparently not body-searched before the meeting and these facts were also part of the confession handed over to the embassy by Afghan intelligence. The FO said the interior minister’s statement was all the more regrettable as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had himself offered cooperation in the investigation during his visit to Kabul to offer condolences to Rabbani’s family and the Afghan people and government.
FAVOURABLY DISPOSED: “Instead of making such irresponsible statements, those in positions of authority in Kabul should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favourably disposed towards peace and towards Pakistan are systematically being removed from the scene and killed,” the FO said, adding that there was a need to take stock of the direction taken by Afghan intelligence and security agencies. The FO said Pakistan had unequivocally condemned the act of terrorism that led to the killing of Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani. “Pakistan reiterates its commitment to peace and stability as well as to mutual respect,” said the FO.
AFGHAN STATEMENT: A statement from Afghanistan’s presidential palace issued on Sunday had quoted investigators as saying Rabbani’s killer was Pakistani.
Evidence showed that Rabbani’s death last month “was plotted in Quetta and the person who carried out the suicide attack against Rabbani was a citizen of Pakistan”, AFP quoted the statement as saying. It added that the killer had been living in Chaman, near Quetta. The Afghan government has also decided to seek UN assistance in the investigation of Rabbani’s murder. Online news agency cited diplomatic sources as saying that the decision had been made after detailed consensus of the Afghan government with its leaders and tribal jirgas.
INDIA PRESSURING: Sources also said even India was pressuring Karzai to seek UN assistance in the investigations and had assured its full cooperation. President Karzai has arrived in India for talks on the issue, after which he is likely to make his formal request to the UN for the investigation of Rabbani’s murder.

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  1. Now even afghans are saying openly against pakis. Looks like no one cares about pakis and their spy agency. Everyone and especially USA knows that Pakis cause terror attacks against all their neighbors and then beg for billions of dollars by saying that They are "helping" in war against terror. They do not want USA to leave and so they create all these terror attacks. PAkis are now surrounded by people who hate them. Is there one country that really stands with PAkis?? Even China is now agreeing to support India in getting permanent seat in UNSC. So are they really a paki friend? Look atworld terrorist list. Almost all have some paki connection

  2. How the Politicians know ISI is not invloved ? ISI is a rogue organization which has brought lot of ignomity and notoriety to Pakistan.
    How far the world will tolerate?

    • Three rules:
      1. In Pakistan a living politician must serve the khakis.
      2. They must not know.
      3. They must say what they are told to say.

  3. U.S should stop calling Pakistan a friend. When they are the real enemy. They are the one's that gave haven to all the terrorists. This is a game they are playing to get monies from U.S. to keep their bankrupt country going. Without U.S. and I.M.F assistance Pakistan would have gone bankrupt 10 years ago. They are in worst shape then Greece.
    Pakistan is the country that is behind every terrorist incident in name of Islam

  4. if usa stops occuping muslim lands and immoral wars and killing there is no need for keeping such big army, the worst dictaters on the earth are americans.they occupied iraq on the name of weapons and still many thousands army is there,drinking iraqi people blood and oil,the same happened in libya,we cant forget the history what the did to vietname.

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