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| India-Pakistan |
| 'Taliban may have carried out embassy blast over caricatures' |
| 2008-06-04 |
| Officials said on Tuesday that local Taliban were likely behind the attack on the Danish embassy, which they claimed was linked to the printing of blasphemous caricatures in Danish newspapers and would not impact the new government’s talks with local Taliban. “This attack was not linked to any event in the country or the region, rather it was part of widespread outrage throughout the Islamic world against publishing blasphemous caricatures,” a senior official said. Investigation: Late on Monday, an Interior Ministry meeting chaired by Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik ordered an investigation team headed by FIA Additional Director General Mirza Muhammad Yaseen to submit a preliminary report within 36 hours. Sources said the report would be finalised within a fortnight and would be submitted to the Interior Ministry. “I think we can say with a reasonable degree of confidence that it was a suicide attack,” FIA DG Tariq Pervez told The Associated Press. Police sources said two police officials who had been deployed near the embassy at the time of the blast had been questioned. They said that a sketch of the suspected attacker had been prepared with the information provided by these police officials. |
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