拉巴尼遇刺后不久，愤怒的总统卡尔扎伊与印度签署了“战略合作伙伴”协议（不过事后他又安慰性地说 ， “ 巴基斯坦是我们的同胞手足 ” ） 。
Soon after, an outraged President Hamid Karzai signed a “strategic partnership” agreement with India (though he added, as a placatory afterthought, that “Pakistan is our twin brother”).