LeT Responsible For Attack at Indian Consulate in Herat: U.S.


WASHINGTON:  There is credible evidence that Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the terror attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Herat province, the U.S. has said.

“Based on credible information... the U.S. government has assessed that LeT was responsible for the attack in Herat on May 23rd, 2014. This is the attack on the Indian consulate (in Herat)”, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said while announcing additional sanctions against LeT affiliates and leaders.

However, given the sensitive nature of the information, she refused to divulge details about the credible information, based on which LeT was held responsible for the attack on Indian Consulate in Herat.

Coming three days before the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India, the attack was apparently part of LeT’s effort to derail his SAARC initiative.

Modi had invited the heads of the states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations, including Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his swearing-in ceremony in New Delhi on May 26.

“We make our assessments based on a wide range of all-source information. In this case we believe, based on this information, it’s credible. We look at number of different sources that we gather on our own. We have assessed that LeT did perpetrate this attack,” Harf said.

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Source: PTI