Islamabad/London: Exposing the ISI’s “manipulation” of Taliban’s senior leadership and its “massive double game”, a damning NATO report says that Pakistan government remains “intimately” involved with the Afghan-based terror group.
The report leaked out on a day when Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrived in Kabul on a one-day visit for talks with Afghan leadership. The NATO report contains accusations that Pakistan is playing a massive double game with the West as it publicly claims to seek a political solution to the Afghan conflict, while still supporting fighters who have killed thousands of international troops.
Many of the reports most serious revelations concern the scale of support to the Taliban provided by Pakistan and the influence of ISI agency.
“The Government of Pakistan remains intimately involved with the Taliban,” The Telegraph quoted the report as saying. The report was first leaked to The Times newspaper and the BBC. Reacting to the report, Khar was quoted as saying, “We can disregard this as a potentially strategic leak… This is old wine in an even older bottle.” (PTI)