Kabul: Pakistan Army officers were behind the January 3 attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif, a senior Afghan police official said today.
Sayed Kamal Sadat, police chief of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, said the attackers, "officers from across the border, were well-trained military men who fought Afghan security forces in the 25-hour siege", Tolo News reported.
"The attackers were military personnel. They were educated and well prepared and had intelligence. They fought us and only by Allah's grace were we able to control them and eliminate them."
After being kept at bay by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel posted at the consulate, all the four terrorists were later killed by the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces.
"We are jointly working with the NDS (National Directorate of Security) director and have spoken about this -- especially as they came here not able to speak in Dari or Pashtu but speaking in Urdu. It means obviously there is someone who guided those attackers and helped the attackers," the Tolo News report quoted Mr Sadat as saying.
An Indian Air Force base in Pathankot was also attacked on January 2 by six terrorists believed to be of Pakistani origin. Seven security personnel were martyred in the gun-battle that lasted for over 80 hours.
Sayed Kamal Sadat, police chief of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, said the attackers, "officers from across the border, were well-trained military men who fought Afghan security forces in the 25-hour siege", Tolo News reported.
"The attackers were military personnel. They were educated and well prepared and had intelligence. They fought us and only by Allah's grace were we able to control them and eliminate them."
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After being kept at bay by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel posted at the consulate, all the four terrorists were later killed by the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces.
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"We are jointly working with the NDS (National Directorate of Security) director and have spoken about this -- especially as they came here not able to speak in Dari or Pashtu but speaking in Urdu. It means obviously there is someone who guided those attackers and helped the attackers," the Tolo News report quoted Mr Sadat as saying.
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An Indian Air Force base in Pathankot was also attacked on January 2 by six terrorists believed to be of Pakistani origin. Seven security personnel were martyred in the gun-battle that lasted for over 80 hours.
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