's... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
liquidation.
We knew that was coming. The proof offered is much too circumstantial, to include the 8x10 color glossies and the videotapes.
| Weren't there also cellphone intercepts of conversations between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan? |
The reaction to Bismillah Mohammadi's remarks came hours after a statement from the Afghan presidential palace claiming that Rabbani's killer was Pak.
According to the statement, evidence shows that Rabbani's death last month "was plotted in Quetta and the person who carried out the suicide kaboom against Rabbani was a citizen of Pakistain".
The statement added that the killer had been living in Chaman, a Pak border town near Quetta.
Pakistain questioned the evidence provided to its embassy in Kabul, and described Rabbani as a great friend of Pakistain, who was widely respected in the country.
Rabbani, chairman of President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai's
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
High Peace Council, was killed by a turban jacket wallah at his home in Kabul on September 20.
He had thought that he was meeting a representative carrying a special message from the Taliban.
"The Afghan Interior Minister has not highlighted the fact that the assassin and his handler were roaming around in Kandahar and Kabul for quite some time," the statement said.
"The Afghan Interior Minister did not say that the assassin had been four days in the guest house of the High Peace Council managed by Afghans close to Burhanuddin Rabbani", the statement added.
"The assassin was also apparently not body searched before the meeting. These facts are also part of the confession handed over to the Embassy by the Afghan intelligence".
The foreign ministry called Mohammadi's statement "all the more regrettable" as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
had himself offered cooperation in the investigation, during his recent visit to Kabul.
"Instead of making such irresponsible statements those in positions of authority in Kabul, should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favourably disposed towards peace and towards Pakistain are systematically being removed from the scene and killed".
It underscored the need to take stock of the direction taken by Afghan intelligence and security agencies.
Karzai's front man said on Sunday that the Afghanistan's Caped President is reviewing his strategy for making peace with the Taliban and will address the nation on next steps "very soon".