India on Saturday claimed it had "a fair amount of intelligence on Pakistan's involvement" in Monday's suicide attack on its embassy in Kabul. In an interview with a private TV channel, Indian National Security Adviser M K Narayanan vowed retaliation to such acts of terror. "I think we need to pay back in the same coin," he said, adding that the Indian government did not only suspect, but believed in Pakistan's role.
He said there were no insinuations about Pakistan's involvement, but facts backed by credible intelligence. "The people of this country deserve to know the facts rather than being carried away by people who claim these are insinuations. There are no insinuations," he said.
Four Indians, including an IFS officer and an Indian army brigadier, were killed in the blast when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden Toyota Corolla into the Indian embassy in Kabul. Narayanan said the dialogue process aimed at improving relations between India and Pakistan had not worked so far, adding, "Dialogue is better than fighting, but so far it hasn't worked. In some way, we haven't taken the decision to fight, so lets talk for the moment."
On the US-India nuclear deal, Narayanan said India had not circulated documents to the IAEA, adding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with US President George W Bush had nothing to do with the documents' circulation. He said the documents were made public soon after the Left allies withdrew support from Singh's government. He said certain scientists were "polluting" the minds of Left leaders to oppose the deal.