Is Pakistan Helping the Taliban? (Yes.)
Dale Hurd
CBN News
January 23, 2007
I have been told repeatedly by U.S. military sources that Pakistan has been playing a double game since 911, and cannot be trusted to help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Last week, Afghanistan's intelligence agency released a video in which a captured Taliban spokesman says Mullah Omar is hiding in Pakistan under the protection of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI.
The New York Times (registration required) reports that it has “found many signs that Pakistani authorities are encouraging Taliban insurgents, if not sponsoring them.” Reporting from the Pakistani border town of Quetta, Carlotta Gall writes that “Western diplomats in both (Afghanistan and Pakistan)...and Pakistani opposition figures say that Pakistani intelligence agencies — in particular the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence — have been supporting a Taliban restoration, motivated not only by Islamic fervor but also by a longstanding view that the jihadist movement allows them to assert greater influence on Pakistan’s vulnerable western flank.”
With allies like these...
By the way, a major Taliban offensive is expected in Afghanistan in the spring, and many American soldiers could die.
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