Karzai: Foreign hand in Kabul attack

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Afghanistan’s presidency said its spy agency believes that a foreign intelligence service, rather than a homegrown militant group, was behind the attack on a Kabul hotel last week that killed nine people, including two children and four foreigners. A statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office said the spy agency briefed Afghanistan’s top security officials. In that briefing the agency said: “The attack on the Serena Hotel was a direct attack by an intelligence service outside the country.” It did not specify which country was purportedly responsible for the assault, but Afghanistan routinely accuses Pakistan of sending militants across the border to wage attacks. Pakistan offered no immediate response to the allegations.