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Bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul: Pakistan must probe Delhi's charges against ISI: Boucher
Published: July 22, 2008- Digg
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WASHINGTON - A senior US official has said that even while maintaining Washington’s line that there is no credible evidence of the Pakistani intelligence agency’s involvement in the suicide bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7, New Delhi’s allegations and accusations that the ISI was complicit in this terrorist act be taken “seriously” and that it is incumbent upon Islamabad to get “to the bottom of this.”
In an exclusive interview with rediff.com, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher said, “We’ve seen a lot of discussion and allegations about who did it and how it was organised. We do think all that needs to be taken seriously and the Pakistani government needs to take it seriously as well.”
“So, we are very much focused on making sure that there is a good investigation and all the facts are determined and that action is taken to correct any problems that might exist and action taken against people who perpetrated this suicide bombing,” he said.
Boucher said Washington was aware that “there are groups trying to do these kinds of suicide bombings in Afghanistan and in Pakistan and in some way or the other we’ve got to get at them.
That is very important, but at the same time the process of dialogue between India and Pakistan has made a lot of progress over the past few years.” Thus, he hoped that the composite dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad would not begin to unravel in the wake of this horrific bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul.
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