India gives $450 million aid to Kabul

India yesterday announced fresh aid of $450 million to Afghanistan for development projects and both countries vowed to fight terrorism, weeks after a deadly attack at the Indian embassy in Kabul.

Afghanistan, India and the United States have accused Pakistan's spy agency of being involved in the July bombing that killed at least 58 people, including two Indian diplomats.

"It was an attack on the friendship of India and Afghanistan," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said shortly after meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is on a two-day visit to India.