Kabul, April 10: Militants launched a pre-dawn attack on an Indian road construction camp in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, burning vehicles and equipment and sending the crew fleeing, the authorities said.

No deaths or injuries were reported in the attack in Khost province’s Domanda district, the interior ministry said in a statement. Suspected Taliban, who are active in the mountainous eastern region bordering Pakistan, descended on the camp around 2 am.
Such raids seek to discourage foreign involvement in Afghanistan and destabilise the central government, which is struggling to bring development to the impoverished countryside and extend its mandate outside the capital, Kabul.
It wasn’t clear whether the camp was targeted due to Indian involvement, altho-ugh militants have launched a number of attacks on Indian interests in Afghan-istan over recent years. A total of 75 people were killed in suicide car bombings outside the Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008 and October 2009, while seven Indians were killed in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse in February. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, although Delhi suspects Pak support to the embassy attack.    —AP