A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday. The Indian embassy in Kabul was the target of yet another terror attack early Thursday morning after a suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into the embassy building, killing 17 people and injuring 80, including three ITBP personnel. Twelve Afghan nationals were killed and three ITBP personnel suffered slight injuries in the blast, but the embassy staff was safe. The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the terror attack. The Taliban, toppled as Afghanistan's rulers in 2001 following a U.S.-led invasion, claimed responsibility for the latest blast. After an attack on the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital last year killed 58 people, India said Pakistan's military spy agency, the ISI, was behind most attacks on Indians in Afghanistan as a way of undermining Indian influence.
While New Delhi has been not yet pointed any finger of blame, links will inevitably be drawn to Pakistan. Pakistan has long regarded Afghanistan as a fall-back position in the event of war with India and fears being squeezed between India on its eastern border and a hostile Afghanistan, backed by India, on a western boundary Kabul does not recognize.
While New Delhi has been not yet pointed any finger of blame, links will inevitably be drawn to Pakistan. Pakistan has long regarded Afghanistan as a fall-back position in the event of war with India and fears being squeezed between India on its eastern border and a hostile Afghanistan, backed by India, on a western boundary Kabul does not recognize.
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