FEAR escalated

For India, this attack is the third for his interests in Kabul after two bombings in 2008 and 2009 against its embassy. New Delhi accused the Pakistani military intelligence of being behind the first attack, a charge backed by Washington.

Pakistan, founder and principal backer of the Taliban movement, has demonstrated since 2001 that if he cooperated sporadically with the United States in the fight against al-Qaida, he nevertheless continued to maintain the Afghan Taliban, whose main leaders living in Pakistan.

The situation has changed recently. The Indo-Pakistani talks were held February 25, the first since the Mumbai attack by jihadists from Pakistan in November 2008. On the other hand, Islamabad has arrested four executives in February Afghan Taliban, to the satisfaction of Washington. But it is too early to say that confidence is back: Kabul and New Delhi could therefore see the Pakistani secret hand behind the attacks. "The attack in Kabul and the resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan are obviously linked, says Mondera Dutta, an academic specialist in Indian Indo-Afghan relations. This shows the serious lack of Pakistanis in the resumption of dialogue." The Indian leaders however have so far refrained from formally jeopardize Pakistan.

The fact that the pension Aryana was mostly frequented by Indians should not obscure the fact that the Taliban in recent months increasing attacks against any foreign presence. Since the attack in October against a housing board of UN personnel, insurgents have managed to infiltrate about once a month in Kabul.

Friday, the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammad should be a day of defeat for the Taliban: The Afghan flag fluttered on Marjah in Helmand province, after twelve days of Operation Mushtarak '(Together). But the reality is that when faced with 15 000 Afghan and Western troops engaged in the conquest of Marjah face of this firepower, the Taliban have not fought for acne. They vanished into the wild to reappear in Kabul, where each attack, fear goes up a notch. The UN and NGOs have already withdrawn from the country teams. This is not the stampede, far away, but the Taliban instill their poison and score points.