Anyone surprised? I know I'm not. AFP
KABUL (AFP) — Afghanistan's intelligence agency said Wednesday that last month's attacks on government buildings in Kabul were planned and directed from Pakistan, saying seven Afghans have been arrested.
The attackers were in telephone contact with a Pakistan-based ringleader during the simultaneous attacks on the justice ministry, prisons directorate and education ministry, agency spokesman Saeed Ansary told reporters.
The February 11 attacks, claimed by Taliban insurgents, killed 26 Afghans in one of the most brazen assaults on the capital since the hardline movement was overthrown in the 2001 US-led invasion.
Eight of the attackers were killed, three by their suicide bombs.
"Seven terrorists were arrested and one was killed during the arrest operation," Ansary said, without giving any further details about the raid.
The alleged ringleader, whom Ansary identified only as Harris, is based in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal area on the Afghan border and is still at large there, the official said.
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