Finger-pointing no solution for Kabul, Islamabad and New Delhi: Experts

Washington, Fri, 18 Jul 2008 ANI Washington, July 18 (ANI): Is Afghanistan on its way back to its past, heading towards being caught once again in a web of intrigues and suspicions? Not according to two former US diplomats with expertise on South and Central Asia. According to Karl F. Inderfurth, former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs and now the John O. Rankin Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs at George Washington University, and Wendy Chamberlin, veteran diplomat and President of the Middle East Institute, the stakes are just too high to replay old rivalries. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said that Pakistan's intelligence service, known as the ISI, was behind the Indian Embassy bombing. Indian officials claim the attack is... [read full story]