Afghanistan is sending an official delegation to Pakistain "soon" to investigate the killing of Kabul's peace envoy, a presidential front man said Monday.Pakistain has agreed to accept the delegation, front man Aimal Faizi told news hounds, adding that it could leave as early as Tuesday.
Rabbani was assassinated by a turban bomber at his Kabul home in September in a move which stalled efforts to talk peace with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say the killing was planned in Pakistain and carried out by a Pak jacket wallah. They have also previously accused Pakistain of refusing to cooperate in the probe.
But at a conference in Istanbul earlier this month, the two sides agreed to cooperate on an investigation into the killing.
"The government of Afghanistan, in order to further investigate the liquidation of professor Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
... will soon send a delegation to Pakistain. Pakistain has accepted to receive the delegation," Faizi said.
"After the pressures that Afghanistan and Turkey put on Pakistain at the Istanbul conference, Pakistain finally agreed to accept our delegation."
The delegation will feature officials from Afghanistan's defence and interior ministries, plus its intelligence service.