Lashkar-e-Tayyaba responsible for attack on Indian Consulate in Herat: US

Washington: There is credible evidence that Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba was responsible for the terror attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Herat province, the US has said.

“Based on credible information... the US government has assessed that LeT was responsible for the attack in Herat on May 23rd, 2014. This is the attack on the Indian consulate (in Herat),” State department spokesperson Marie Harf said while announcing additional sanctions against LeT affiliates.

However, given the sensitive nature of the information, she refused to divulge details about the credible information, based on which LeT was held responsible for the attack.

Coming three days before the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as PM of India, it was apparently part LeT’s effort to derail his Saarc initiative. Mr Modi had invited the heads of the states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations including Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his swearing-in ceremony in New Delhi on May 26.