2 Oct 2011

Pakistan evidence on peace envoy killing

3:06 pm on 2 October 2011

Afghanistan's intelligence agency says it has given Pakistan evidence that Taliban leaders plotted last month's assassination of government peace envoy, ex-President Burhanuddin Rabbani, in Pakistan.

Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi said in parliament on Saturday that a master-mind of the plot - Hameedullah Akhondzada - had been arrested.

He also said Pakistan's spy agency, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, played a role in the killing on 20 September.

The Taliban leadership council is known as the Quetta Shura. Pakistan denies the existence of any Taliban shura in Quetta.