New Delhi: Three days after a suicide car bomb attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, another attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan has been reported by a private TV channel in Pakistan.
The channel said on Thursday that Taliban claimed to have killed two Indians and four others in an attack on the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad.
Daily Times website reports, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Geo News over the telephone that his men attacked the Indian consulate with bombs killing six men, including two Indian nationals, and injuring eight.
However, Indian intelligence sources have denied there were any attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.
There was a threat of attack by Taliban but it was prevented, they added.
On Monday, Afghanistan witnessed one of the deadliest bomb attacks in the country when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car into the Indian Mission in Kabul, killing 41 and injuring scores.
Monday's attack was a brutal warning to India, which has been involved in reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.
Taliban groups have demanded India ends its activities in Afghanistan.
After the attack, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Navtej Sarna, said that "no attacks will deter India from its commitment to the people and the government of Afghanistan".
With the assistance of approximately $750 million, India is one of Afghanistan's leading international donors running an ambitious clutch of programs ranging from power transmission lines near Kabul to reconstruction of a dam power project in Herat and telephone exchanges in atleast 11 Afghan provinces.
In January this year, two ITBP Personnel were killed as a suicide bomber rammed into their convoy on the highway.
There were similiar attacks in April.
In June, suicide bombers killed three others and injured more than 12 Indian border roads workers.
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