KABUL, Jan 20: The suicide attacks that have struck Afghanistan in the past months are clearly the work of Al Qaeda and the Taliban fighters operating with foreign support, the Afghan foreign minister said on Thursday.

Abdullah Abdullah rejected a statement from a purported spokesman of the Taliban regime that the group was not behind a suicide blast on Monday. “Security incidents come from Al Qaeda or Taliban. They get some support from outside Afghanistan, people crossing the border from Pakistan,” Mr Abdullah said in an interview with AFP.

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