NEW DELHI (AFP) -- India will continue its presence in Afghanistan despite a suicide attack on its embassy in Kabul that killed 41 people including four of its nationals, New Delhi's envoy said Wednesday.

India's ambassador to Kabul, Jayant Prasad, also told the Times Now TV channel that Afghan authorities remain convinced that Pakistan's ISI was behind the attack.
“My political message is that India is not going to be deterred,” Prasad said of Monday's attack, in which nearly 150 people were also wounded.
Describing the suicide bombing as intended “to deter India from our engagement in Afghanistan,” Prasad said: “We are going to continue to be here and we are going to continue to do what we have been doing here.”
The car bomb ripped into the embassy compound, killing India's military attaché, a diplomat and two Indian guards as well as nearly three dozen Afghans.
It has been described as the deadliest in Kabul since the start of the insurgency that began after the extremist Taliban movement was removed from power in a US-led invasion in late 2001.
Prasad said Afghan authorities had accused Pakistan “on the basis of preliminary investigations. These investigations are continuing, several arrests have taken place.”
On Tuesday, Afghan presidential spokesman Homayun Hamidzada said the “sophistication of this attack and the kind of materials used and the specific targeting, everything has the hallmark of a particular intelligence agency that has conducted similar terrorist acts in Afghanistan in the past.”
Pakistan rejects the accusation.
India assisted the so-called Northern Alliance, a grouping of Afghan factions that fought the Taliban, and is now helping the US-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
New Delhi has pledged 750 million dollars for rebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan since 2001.