Election machinery: Afghan workers unloading ballot boxes and electoral material from a truck at an Independent Election Commission office in Herat. - AFP
WASHINGTON: Afghan presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah said he wanted “good neighbourly relations” with Pakistan, taking a conciliatory tone after accusations that Islamabad’s spy service tried to kill him.
Outgoing President Hamid Karzai’s National Security Council said that “foreign intelligence services” – a thinly veiled reference to Pakistan – were behind two blasts last week aimed at Abdullah in which 12 people were killed.
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