Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Islamabad assures Kabul of help

Pakistan is set to extend all-out assistance to Afghan government in investigations into mysterious assassination of Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, sources said on Monday.
According to the informed sources Islamabad has assured Kabul of every possible help in probing the assassination of the former Afghan President. The sources said that Islamabad has already sought detailed information from Kabul to help the Afghan government in this connection. The sources further said that a team of Afghan inquiry commission investigating assassination of Chief Afghan peace negotiator is due to visit Pakistan on Wednesday to share details of its investigation with Pakistani authorities.
“We are expecting the Afghan delegation will come up with credible evidence to share with Pakistan,” a senior official said, denying that relations between Islamabad and Kabul had been stalled following the assassination.
of the head of the Afghan High Peace Council.
Rabbani was killed by a turban bomber at his residence in the upscale Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood of Kabul on September 20. Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak heads Afghan Inquiry Commission; which includes the interior minister, heads of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and National Security Council and the country’s attorney general as its members.

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