Karzai Says Attack on Afghan Spy Chief Planned in Pakistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday a suicide attack that wounded the country's spy chief was planned in neighboring Pakistan.

Asadullah Khalid, who heads the National Directorate of Security (NDS), was targeted by an attacker with a bomb hidden in his underwear posing as a Taliban peace envoy in Kabul on Thursday.

Karzai said he believed the attacker had come from Pakistan, but he did not blame the Pakistani government over the bombing.

"We know that this man who came in the name of a guest to meet with Asadullah Khalid came from Pakistan. We know that for a fact. That is clear," Karzai told reporters.

"This attack was plotted... from the (southwestern) city of Quetta in Pakistan."

"I will raise this issue with Pakistan," he added.

Khalid was attacked at a spy agency guesthouse and is now being treated at a U.S.-run military hospital outside Kabul where he is in a stable condition, security sources have said.

On Friday, the NDS said that he was "recovering" and in a "satisfactory" condition.