 AfghanistanÂ’s Taliban do not attack outside Afghanistan and were not involved in an attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi last week, an insurgent commander said on Monday.
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Around 139 people were killed in two blasts that targeted Bhutto’s welcome rally on October 18. She later said a “brotherly country” had warned her that suicide squads from the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Pakistani Taliban and Karachi-based militants were out to get her. She also alluded to enemies in the government that backed militants and were plotting against her.
But a commander of Afghanistan’s Taliban, Mullah Hayatullah Khan, denied involvement. “The Afghan Taliban are not involved in attacks in foreign countries,” Khan said via telephone from Quetta an undisclosed location. “I want to tell you, we are not involved in the attack on Benazir Bhutto’s convoy,” he said. |