Afghan officials stepped up accusations Sunday that the assassination of the country's peace council chairman began with a plot in Pakistan and was carried out by a citizen of the neighboring nation.
Afghanistan's interior minister said Sunday that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency also played a role in the attack, which he said came after months of planning by a Taliban group based in Pakistan.
"There are no doubts that ISI had its involvement in the plot," Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi told Afghan lawmakers. "We have handed over the documents and proof to the Pakistani government."
Pakistan's foreign ministry denied the claims, decrying them as "baseless allegations."
"Instead of making such irresponsible statements, those in positions of authority in Kabul should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favorably disposed towards peace and towards Pakistan are systematically being removed from the scene and killed," Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was spearheading the reconciliation process with the Taliban in Afghanistan, was killed in a September 20 suicide bombing at his home.
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