Pakistan denounces Afghan allegations on Kandahar attack as baseless

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected Kabul’s allegations regarding the recent attacks in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar as unfounded and baseless.  

In a statement, Foreign Offfice Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal said no concrete evidence or intelligence information has been shared till today to substantiate such claims.

He said in the presence of Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Stability (APAPPS), it would have been more appropriate to invoke the relevant arrangement instead of resorting to blame game on media, which is contrary to the seven principles of cooperation agreed between the two sides.

General Abdul Razeq, the Kandahar police commander, was killed outside the provincial governor’s office last week, when a bodyguard opened fire on a group of officials as they left a meeting with General Scott Miller, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Miller was not wounded but the regional intelligence agency commander was killed and the provincial governor severely wounded, crippling the leadership of one of the country’s most strategically important provinces.

Although nominally a provincial police chief, Razeq was one of the most powerful political figures in Afghanistan and a formidable opponent of the Taliban, with unchallenged authority across the volatile south of the country.