NEW DELHI: Days after the Indian embassy was attacked by the Taliban on July 8, 2008, then national security advisor M K Narayanan got a phone call from Gen Keith Alexander, head of US' National Security Agency, informing him about tracing the bomber's calls to ISI officials in Peshawar.Alexander told Narayanan they had intercepted calls from the bomber who was said to have received instructions from the top of the heap of the ISI. It led Narayanan to explode prompting him to say the 'ISI should be destroyed', an approach at odds with the sentiment of the Indian political leadership at that time. It was only by the end of July (almost three weeks later) that a high level CIA official from the US confronted Islamabad with the intelligence.As Afghanistan transitions from a NATO-dominated security environment to a situation where it has to take care of itself, beginning with Saturday's presidential elections, the dangers of Pak-sponsored terror attacks on Indian interests remains real. India has increased security measures in its embassy and other facilities in recent weeks, but there is apprehension that Pak-supported elements could mount concerted attacks on Indian interests in Afghanistan. The idea today is the same as it was in 2008 - to make it difficult for countries like India to retain a presence there.Amid the burning wreckage of the car bomb that rammed into the Indian embassy in Kabul that July morning killing a senior Indian diplomat, defence attaché and over 37 others, investigators had found a mobile phone. Writing about that incident years later, US journalist Carlotta Gall says in her latest book that it was no rogue ISI operation.This week she recounted to an interviewer, "The Afghans investigated and traced the calls made from that phone to a logistics man in Kabul, who helped the bomber get his car and explosives and drive to the target. And so they tracked him, and then they found his phone had several calls to numbers in Pakistan. And when they established what those numbers were, they discovered those were of high-level Pakistani intelligence officials in Peshawar. And I was told by Afghan officials that the owner of that phone was a high enough official in the Pakistani intelligence to be directly reporting to the headquarters in the Pakistani capital. So it meant that the Pakistani intelligence was directing the operation."The Indian embassy would have been totally destroyed that day, had it not been for some crucial intelligence picked up the week before. Alerted, the Indian embassy built a series of hexa barriers outside the embassy compound. These barriers took the brunt of the bomb attack.That intelligence itself, according to a Wikileaks documents, came from the Polish intelligence in Afghanistan and was passed to the US and Afghan services. It was the Afghans who told the Indians. The document, dated June 30, 2008, said, "Taliban are planning to carry out an attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. TB (Taliban) designated an engineer to take this action." "The bomber intends to use stolen ANA/ANP (Afghan National Army/ Afghan National Police) car, and wear stolen uniform. He speaks Dari with distinct Iranian accent. Allegedly, he is the owner of a ——— company," it said.A news report by Ananta Aspen Centre and Delhi Policy Group on Friday observes Pakistan "is not likely to relent in its efforts to take control of the situation in Afghanistan to try and ensure a pliant regime in Kabul which keeps India out of the reckoning".While Pakistan's intentions may not have changed, its capacities have. And it now has the added problem of a massive terror blowback itself from the very forces it has supported. In fact, some Indian security analysts say that terror groups attacking Pakistan could use southern Afghanistan as safe havens much in the same way that Pakistan lets the Afghan Taliban use its FATA regions and Balochistan to nurture terrorists for launching attacks in Afghanistan.