Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the bombings

Yesterday I wrote a bit of a background piece on the very complicated relationship between India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Today, President Karzai's spokesman repeats the charge that Pakistan was behind yesterday's embassy bombing apparently without, you know, any actual evidence

"The sophistication of this attack and the kind of material that was used, the specific targeting, everything has the hallmarks of a particular agency that has conducted similar attacks inside Afghanistan. We have sufficient evidence to say that," Hamidzada said. "The project was designed outside Afghanistan. It was exported to Afghanistan."

It wasn't just one comment. The Karzai government issued an official written summary of their cabinet meeting, (AFP)

"The terrorists no doubt could not have succeeded in launching such an atrocity without full support of foreign intelligence," the summary of the cabinet meeting released Tuesday said, citing the report.

The Karzai government really wants it public that Pakistan was behind this terror attack on the Indian embassy. (To get the Indians to commit to more "reconstruction funds" he can dole out to stabilize his wobbly government before the next election?)

The Pakistani PM condemned the attack.

(And the US-India nuclear deal is moving forward.)