KABUL: Afghanistan is sending an official delegation to Pakistan "soon" to investigate the killing of Kabul's peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani, a presidential spokesman said Monday.
Pakistan has agreed to accept the delegation, spokesman Aimal Faizi told reporters, adding that it could leave as early as Tuesday.
Rabbani was assassinated by a turban bomber at his Kabul home in September in a move which stalled efforts to talk peace with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials allege the killing was planned in Pakistan and carried out by a Pakistani suicide bomber.
But at a conference in Istanbul earlier this month, the two sides agreed to cooperate on an investigation into the killing.
"The government of Afghanistan, in order to further investigate the assassination of professor Burhanuddin Rabbani... will soon send a delegation to Pakistan. Pakistan has accepted to receive the delegation," Faizi said.
The delegation will feature officials from Afghanistan's defence and interior ministries, plus its intelligence service.
"We had offered assistance when Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani went to Kabul after Professor Rabbani's assassination," foreign ministry spokesperson Tehmina Janjua told AFP.
"This (offer) was reiterated in Istanbul" when President Asif Ali Zardari met his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, she said.
"Schedule of the visit is being worked out by the ministry of interior," Janjua added.
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