Islamabad, Oct 10 : Afghanistan’s top diplomat in Pakistan has said members of a commission investigating last month’s assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, will visit Islamabad within a ‘few days’ to seek Pakistan’s help in the investigations.

“There were some ‘technical problems’ which have been addressed. And now a team of the Afghan inquiry commission will reach Islamabad within a few days,” The Express Tribune quoted Afghan Ambassador Omar Daudzai, as saying.

Rabbani, the chief Afghan peace negotiator, was killed by a turban bomber at his residence in Kabul on September 20. The Taliban had immediately claimed responsibility for the killing, but turned back from its claim a day later.

Afghan government officials, including the Interior Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, have blamed Pakistan’s top military spy agency for plotting the killing of Rabbani.

Headed by Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak, the Afghan inquiry commission includes the interior minister, heads of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and National Security Council and the country’s attorney-general.

NDS spokesperson Lutfullah Mashal had earlier claimed they had handed Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul ‘evidence’ indicating that Pakistan-based Quetta Shura was behind Rabbani’s killing. Afghan officials, then, claimed that the Pakistani mission had refused to cooperate with them.

But Islamabad said that the so-called ‘evidence’ was based on a confessional statement of a man in Afghan custody whom they call the ‘mastermind.’ (ANI)