LeT hand in Kabul attack,Afghanistan tells India

In a series of high-level meetings with National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon over the past two days....

In a series of high-level meetings with National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon over the past two days,Afghanistan has shared details of investigations that point to the role of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in last weeks suicide attack that left seven Indians,including a doctor of the medical mission,dead.

Menon declined to share details as the investigation is ongoing. But sources said the Afghans had shared information that was increasingly pointing to the Lashkars involvement in the attack.

The Afghan ministry has shared what their information is telling them. They are following several leads. We had a conversation… but I would desist to comment till the investigation gets completed, the NSA said after meeting top Afghan officials,including President Hamid Karzai. Menon reiterated that India would continue its developmental works in the country.

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We have several developmental projects and a cooperation programme which is essentially an effort to work with our Afghan friends and do the things they want us to do. That will continue. We might adjust the way we do it,but our commitment to the developmental partnership will continue, Menon said.

The NSA raised the issue of better security for Indians with the Afghans. He said the Afghan government had assured him in very concrete terms that additional security measures were being put into place,which would aim to protect not just Indian embassy officials and people working on government projects,but would cover all Indian citizens involved in the reconstruction effort in the country. They will do a great deal more than in the past. We are now dealing with a much more vicious threat, Menon said.

The NSA confirmed that the Indian medical mission in Kabul,one the main targets of last weeks attack,had been temporarily suspended,but similar missions in other cities in Afghanistan were continuing. In this medical mission here in Kabul,they have lost people. So,temporarily we have suspended their work. The other three are working. This mission too will continue to work in the future, he said.