CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN FOREIGN MINISTER CLAIMES THAT BLAST ON BUS ON JULY 14 KILLING CHINESE WORKERS WAS HANDIWORK OF INDIAN AND AFGHAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
Reuters (August 12) reported Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi as saying on August 12 that the bus blast on July 14 that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, was a suicide bombing by Islamist militants backed by the Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies. He claimed an investigation showed there was a "nexus of Indian RAW and Afghan NDS" in the attack, referring to the two countries' intelligence agencies. An Indian official was quoted describing the charges as "baseless".
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