Islamabad, Oct 1(ANI): A delegation of Afghan investigators is all geared up to visit Pakistan to conduct an inquiry into the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Chairman of Afghanistan's High Peace Council.
Rabbani, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war in Afghanistan, was killed on September 20 by a suicide bomber who was supposedly a peace emissary sent by the Taliban leadership.
His assassination has apparently destroyed all efforts made by the Afghanistan-Pakistan joint commission for peace and reconciliation, The Express Tribune reports.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a team on Sunday to investigate Rabbani's murder, which has had a major impact on the war-torn country's reconciliation process.
Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak is heading the inquiry panel. However, the Afghan diplomatic sources did not reveal who will be leading the delegation, which is expected to arrive in Islamabad within a couple of days, the report said.
The decision to send a delegation to Pakistan was taken during a recent meeting of former senior Jihadi leaders and senior aides of President Karzai in Kabul to discuss the future peace process and matters relating to Rabbani's murder, according to the report.
Afghan investigators will mainly be depending on help from Pakistani authorities, and "if they are not satisfied, the Afghan government may have to approach the United Nations for conducting an investigation", the sources were quoted as saying.
Karzai's government is under mounting pressure from Rabbani's Jamiat-e-Islami party to involve the UN in the investigation into the high profile-murder, saying that they are dissatisfied with the capability of Afghan intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies to probe the incident. (ANI)
|
|
Read More: Hami
Comments:
