A low-intensity bomb exploded near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad today. The blast occurred a day after the Indian consulate siege ended in a northern Afghan city. The spot was around 200m from the consulate in Jalalabad, said an Indian diplomatic source.No one was injured in the blast, Afghan authorities said. The explosion also follows a bloody weekend assault on an air base in India near the Pakistan border.But Vikas Swarup, a spokesman for the India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said the Jalalabad consulate “was not the target”. The area also houses consulates of Pakistan and Iran.Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for Nangarhar province’s governor, said the authorities were unsure what the target was, but a police convoy had been passing by at the time. “The explosives were placed in a garbage can,” he added. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Indian interests have been targeted twice since Saturday—an attack on its consulate at Mazar-i-Sharif and a raid by Islamist insurgents on an air force base in Punjab. The spike in violence came roughly a week after PM Narendra Modi paid a surprise peacemaking visit to Pakistan following a whirlwind tour of Kabul. India has been a supporter of Kabul’s post-Taliban government, and analysts have often pointed to the threat of a “proxy war” in Afghanistan between India and Pakistan. The Taliban have also stepped up attacks on government and foreign targets in Afghanistan, including a series of assaults in Kabul last week. — AFP