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“The killing, destruction, dishonor and insecurity in Afghanistan are carried out by Pakistan’s intelligence and military institutions,” Karzai said.

KABUL, July 14 – (Kyodo)—Afghanistan boycotted several upcoming bilateral talks with Pakistan on Monday, accusing its Inter-Services Intelligence of involvement in a recent series of violent acts in the country.

A resolution passed by Afghanistan’s Cabinet ministers said that Afghanistan will suspend talks with Pakistan over the border issues to be held in Dubai, talks on economical cooperation to be held in Kabul later July and talks on regional economic cooperation due in Islamabad in August.

In a statement, Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the first time directly accused Pakistan’s intelligence service of being behind a recent wave of deadly attacks in Afghanistan.

“The killing, destruction, dishonor and insecurity in Afghanistan are carried out by Pakistan’s intelligence and military institutions,” Karzai said.

Around 60 people including four Indians were killed and more than 100 were wounded in a suicide attack on the Indian Embassy about a week earlier.

The resolution also accused Pakistan’s intelligence service of being involved in the attempt assassination of President Karzai in April and Kandahar’s jail break in June in which more than 900 prisoners, including around 350 militants, escaped.

“Pakistan’s intelligence agency and military have turned that country to the biggest exporter of terrorism and extremism to the world, particularly Afghanistan,” the statement said.

But Pakistan denied it has played part in such violence.

In Afghanistan, around 2,000 people have been reportedly killed in violence since the beginning of the year. Pakistan once had strong ties with the Taliban.