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Pakistan denies involvement in envoy Rabbani assassination

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Pakistan has rejected as "baseless" allegations from Afghan officials that its intelligence agency ISI was behind the assassination of Kabul's chief peace negotiator with the Taliban.

Pakistan has rejected as "baseless" allegations from Afghan officials that its intelligence agency ISI was behind the assassination of Kabul's chief peace negotiator with the Taliban.

Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed the Afghan High Peace Council, was killed in a suicide blast at his house in Kabul on September 20.

An investigative delegation established by Afghan President Hamid Karzai said evidence and a confession provided by a man involved in Rabbani's killing had revealed that the bomber was Pakistani and the assassination had been plotted in Pakistan.

"The so-called evidence given to the Pakistan embassy in Kabul is actually a confessional statement of an Afghan national, Hamidullah Akundzadeh, accused of masterminding the assassination," Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Instead of making such irresponsible statements, those in positions of authority in Kabul should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favorably disposed towards peace and towards Pakistan are systematically being removed from the scene and killed," the same statement said.

Rabbani's assassination derailed efforts to forge a dialogue with the Taliban to end the 10-year war and raised fears of a dangerous widening of Afghanistan's ethnic rifts.

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