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Five days before the India-Pakistan Home Secretary dialogue on terror,New Delhi had alerted Islamabad and Kabul to an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba plot to target its Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhyaya and the Indian mission in the Afghan capital.
Subsequent intervention by Afghan authorities led to arrest of what sources call three potential suicide bombers and the seizure of a truckload of explosives in the Wardak province on March 23.
On March 22,US intelligence agencies are said to have passed on specific information through security channels to Indias Defence Intelligence Agency in Delhi about an alleged Lashkar plot,that included some officials of the ISI,to use suicide bombers against the targets on Pakistans National Day on March 23.
The alert included summary of communication intercepts between suspected officials of the ISI,the names of the three Lashkar operatives,the registration number of the Toyota pick-up truck and telephone numbers of the alleged conspirators.
The DIA informed the Indian embassy in Kabul,the Ministry of External Affairs and the Home Ministry. Afghanistans intelligence agency,National Directorate of Security,was also sounded out.
It apprehended the truck and the three suspects 45 miles from Kabul.Sources said that the MEA conveyed Indias concerns to Islamabad and the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi. Islamabad was provided with the names and numbers as mentioned in the alert.
