[Dawn] Afghanistan and Pakistain were locked in a war of words on Thursday over a shrine bombing that killed at least 55 people in Kabul and which the Afghan government blamed on a Pak terror group.Islamabad called for an end to the "blame game" after Kabul demanded action against the group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, whose purported claim of responsibility for Tuesday's attack has not been confirmed independently.
"It is high time to get out of the blame game as such and to move forward in the spirit of cooperation," said foreign office front man Abdul Basit.
"Publicly accusing Pakistain of unfounded events and things do create problems at some stage", he told news hounds.
"We would like to have a relationship that is free of recrimination and blame game," Basit added.
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain are tense, and frequently spiral into mutual accusations over the violence plaguing both their countries.
Kabul said Thursday that it was up to Pakistain to investigate without waiting any longer after Pakistain called for hard evidence to support claims that Jhangvi was responsible.
"It's up to Pakistain to take action and find out where and how the contact was made by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi from inside Pakistain. They shouldn't wait for us to provide them with evidence," Aimal Faizi, Karzai's front man, told AFP.
Faizi said an Afghan investigation was under way but it is thought officials do not currently have evidence of the group's involvement.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed orc group which has links to al Qaeda and the Taliban, has been blamed for killing thousands of Shias and whipping up sectarian hatred in Pakistain.
But there has been no confirmation of a purported claim of responsibility for the Kabul attacks from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi splinter group al-Alami.
Officials and experts fear that Tuesday's attack may have been designed to whip up sectarian conflict in Afghanistan, which has not previously suffered the scale of such violence experienced in Iraq and Pakistain.