Leaked US intelligence documents have revealed that Indian road construction teams and consulates in Afghanistan came under attack more than two dozen times after the ISI paid the Taliban and the Haqqani network to specifically attack Indians. While major attacks on Indians have been reported the twin attacks on the Indian Embassy in July 2008 and October 2009,the attack on doctors in February this year and the April 2008 suicide attack on a team of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) there have been several smaller attacks and failed attempts to disrupt Indian developmental efforts in Afghanistan. The favourite target of the ISI-backed Taliban have been the more vulnerable Indian road construction teams both private and government owned that were attacked close to 15 times by suicide bombers,vehicle bombs and road side bombs to disrupt work. Most of these events went unreported as no casualties were reported or security personnel received only minor injuries. The attacks stopped only after India withdrew its road construction company from Afghanistan in late 2008. Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad have also come under repeated attacks in the past years but none from the staff have been injured. The Kandahar consulate was attacked twice with grenades within three weeks in January 2006. In the first incident,the grenades failed to explode. A second attack that took place within three weeks. Similarly,the Jalalabad consulate was also attacked twice within a month in late 2007 again with grenades. In the first case in November,the grenades did not explode. The grenades had been thrown over the consulate wall that borders a main road. One grenade was found in a courtyard area. The second grenade was found on top of the roof of a nearby building, said an intelligence report. A month later in December,two more grenades were thrown inside the consulate but again failed to explode. Documents leaked by website WikiLeaks clearly show that the ISI paid the Haqqani network large amounts of money $15,000 to 30,000 to specifically target Indian developmental efforts. On Tuesday,India reiterated its position and,in a reaction to reports on ISI links with the Taliban,called for an end to the sponsorship of terrorism. We have seen media reports about classified information,supposedly from US government sources,put out in public domain,on support to terrorism by ISI. Sponsorship of terrorism,as an instrument of policy,is wholly condemnable and must cease forthwith, said a spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs.
