France condemns attack on Indian embassy in Kabul

October 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Saturday spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and discussed the situation arising out of Thursday's bomb blast outside the Indian embassy in Kabul.

October 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expressing solidarity with India after the attack on its embassy in Kabul Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying France will work with India to halt the barbarism of the Taliban. "I would like to express my full support and deep solidarity to you in these painful circumstances, Sarkozy wrote to Manmohan Singh on the day a powerful suicide bomb blast targeted the Indian embassy in Kabul, killing 17 Afghans and injuring over 80.

October 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao left for Kabul Friday to review the situation in the aftermath of the suicide attack Thursday outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, in which 17 people were killed. Rao will review security arrangements for the mission and inspect the damage after the blast, which was more powerful than a similar attack in July 2008, sources said.

October 9th, 2009 KABUL/NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Friday visited the Indian embassy in Afghanistan, which was the target of a suicide attack Thursdar that left 17 people dead. She, however, refrained from pointing fingers at Pakistan.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Thursday said the suicide attack in Kabul was directed at the Indian embassy. "I believe that the suicide bomb was directed against the embassy because the suicide bomber came up to the outside perimeter wall of the embassy in a car loaded with explosives, obviously with the aim of targeting the embassy," Rao said.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI/KABUL -An Indian Embassy official speaking on the condition of anonymity told ANI over phone that all embassy staff were safe and that only one Afghan policeman had been killed in a bomb explosion that took place outside the embassy premises on Thursday morning. He also confirmed that four others had been injured.

October 8th, 2009 KABUL - No Indians had been killed in the suicide blast outside the Indian embassy here Thursday morning but some had been injured, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad said. He described the explosion as being "of the same intensity" as the July 7, 2008 bombing in which 44 people, including two Indian diplomats, had been killed.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will not be intimidated by the criminal killers who perpetrated the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul and will take all steps to protect Indians, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor affirmed Thursday. "India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - British Foreign Minister David Miliband Thursday rang up his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna and expressed his sympathies at the suicide car bomb attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Condemning the suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, the Congress party Thursday said such incidents would hamper the reconstruction process in strife-torn Afghanistan. Such attacks are unfortunate, they should be condemned by the international community, Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad told IANS.

October 8th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - The European Union (EU) has condemned a suicide car bomb attack that killed 17 people outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul Thursday. "The presidency is appalled by this atrocious form of terrorism, taking place in the close vicinity of a diplomatic mission which enjoys protection under international law," Sweden, which holds the presidency of the EU, said in a statement.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy J.

October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has condemned Thursday's bombing near the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed at least 17 people and injured 76, saying there's no justification for this kind of senseless violence. "The United States condemns the bombing today (Thursday) near the Indian Embassy and Ministry of Interior in Kabul that has killed several people and wounded many more," the State Department said in a statement.

October 8th, 2009 TORONTO - Canada Thursday condemned the suicide attack at the Indian embassy in Kabul. Seventeen people were killed and nearly 80 injured when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden vehicle near the embassy Thursday morning.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is likely to go to Afghanistan Friday to take stock of the situation in the aftermath of the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, in which 17 people were killed. According to reliable sources, Rao is expected to leave Friday for Kabul.