KANDAHAR, June 29: Afghan officials claimed on Thursday that they had captured two Pakistani nationals who were part of a 20-member team that entered southern Afghanistan to carry out suicide attacks.

Two other men from the same group were killed on Wednesday when they detonated a car bomb near a US-led coalition convoy in Zabul province, while 16 other Pakistani nationals were still at large, a police official said.

Ghulam Rasoul Aka, police chief of Zabul’s Sari Safa district where the Pakistani pair were seized, said his information was based on the confession of the detained men.

Kabul has repeatedly accused Islamabad of failing to stop infiltration from the Pakistani side of the border. Islamabad strongly denies the charges.—AFP