The Afghan government has not yet "formally informed" Pakistan about the arrest of its three nationals for allegedly plotting to kill former US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Foreign Office spokesman Jalil Abbas Jillani said on Monday. "Neither was Pakistan's embassy in Kabul approached nor did the Afghanistan Embassy in Islamabad inform the Foreign Office about the arrests," Jillani told Daily Times on the phone from the Lahore airport before his departure for India.
He said no consular access was granted to the three young Pakistanis in Kabul. "That is why we say there are many holes and we demand an independent inquiry," the FO spokesman said, adding that Kabul had not provided evidence about the three men's involvement in the alleged plot. Both the Afghan embassy in Islamabad and consulate in Peshawar declined to comment on Kabul's reluctance to inform Islamabad about the arrests through diplomatic channels. "We cannot comment," a senior Afghan diplomat in Peshawar told Daily Times. |