Rabbani killing plotted on Pak soil
Afghanistan's intelligence agency said yesterday that it had handed Pakistan evidence that the Taliban's leadership plotted the recent assassination of ex-president and government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani on Pakistani soil.
The interior minister, giving testimony in parliament, also said that a master-mind of the plot -- Hameedullah Akhondzada -- had been arrested. The minister said Pakistan's spy agency, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), played a role in the killing.
Rabbani, who was head of the High Peace Council charged with trying to reach a negotiated settlement to the war, was killed at his Kabul home by a suicide bomber claiming to be carrying a message of peace from the Taliban leadership.
"Without any doubt Pakistan's ISI hand has been involved," Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi told lawmakers yesterday, while discussing Rabbani's killing.
"We have detained Hameedullah Akhondzada who confessed that it was nothing but a plot," he added.
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