US has evidence linking ISI to Kabul blast: NYT
Ahead of a likely meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Colombo, top US officials have told an American daily that they had clear evidence that Pakistan's spy service ISI helped plan the July 7 bombing of India's embassy in Kabul.
American intelligence agencies have concluded that the ISI helped plan the July 7 bombing of India's embassy in Kabul, says a report Friday in The New York Times (NYT) headlined: “Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, US Officials Say”.
The conclusion is based on intercepted communications between Pakistani intelligence officials and militants who carried out the attack, the report quotes a US official as saying.
The report, based on remarks of US officials privy to US intelligence gathering, confirm India's charge that the Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) masterminded the attack on the Indian mission in Kabul that killed four Indians, including two diplomats.
"American officials said that the communications were intercepted before the July 7 bombing, and that the CIA emissary, Stephen R Kappes, the agency's deputy director, had been ordered to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, even before the attack,” the report published in the Aug 1 edition of the NYT said.
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