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India says has credible info. on attack on its Kabul Mission

NEW DELHI, July 12 (KUNA) -- India Saturday stressed that it had credible inputs about Pakistans involvement in last Mondays suicide attack on the Indian embassy at Kabul, which killed 54 including diplomats.
"The government not only suspects but has a fair amount of intelligence on the involvement of Pakistan on the attack on our mission in Kabul," Indian National Security Advisor M K Narayanan told the countrys news channels here this evening.
"Pakistans Inter Services Intelligence needs to be destroyed. India has made this point, whenever it had a chance, to interlocutors across the globe. There might have been some tactical restraint in the past, that restraint no longer exists," he asserted.
Two days back Indian Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor also hinted at ISIs role in the Kabul attack.
The dead in the July 7 attack included India's Defence Attache to Afghanistan Brig. R D Mehta, Counsellor in Kabul mission V V Rao, security personnel Ajai Pathaniya and Roop Singh. One of the Afghan staff members at the Embassy, Niamatullah was also killed in the attack. Others included students from a school in the vicinity of the Mission, and Afghan nationals who had come to the Embassy for securing visas.
It was the worst suicide attack in Afghanistan since the downfall of Taliban in 2001. It was also the major terror attack on any Indian mission abroad. (end) dr.ajs KUNA 121900 Jul 08NNNN