US Funded Pakistani ISI is Training and Supplying the Taliban

The Taliban's "plastic bombs" - the low metal content improvised explosive devices (IEDS) that kill the majority of American and British soldiers who die in Afghanistan - were introduced to the Taliban by Pakistani officials, according to Taliban commanders, the Taliban intermediary and western officials. Far from being the work of rogue elements, interviews suggest this "support is official ISI policy", he said.

"The report is consistent with Pakistan's political history in which civilian leaders actively backed 'jihadi' groups that operate in Afghanistan and Kashmir," Waldman said.

Pakistani support for the Taliban is prolonging a conflict that has cost the West billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, the report said, noting that last week 32 NATO soldiers were killed.

The LSE report, based on dozens of interviews and corroborated by two senior western security officials, stated: "As the provider of sanctuary and substantial financial, military and logistical support to the insurgency, the ISI appears to have strong strategic and operational influence - reinforced by coercion.

"There is thus a strong case that the ISI orchestrates, sustains and shapes the overall insurgent campaign."

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former second in command, was arrested by the ISI earlier this year with seven other Taliban leaders.

Shortly after Baradar's arrest, the ISI captured two other Taliban members - Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir and his close associate and friend Mullah Abdul Rauf. Both men were released after just two nights in custody, the paper reported.

Following his release, Zakir, who spent years in custody in American detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, assumed command of the Taliban's military wing, replacing Baradar. Rauf, also a former Guantanamo inmate, was immediately appointed chairman of the Quetta shura.

"To say the least, this is compelling evidence of significant ISI influence over the movement and it is highly likely that the release was on ISI terms or at least on the basis of a mutual understanding," the London School of Economics (LSE) report said.

The "promotions" of Zakir and Rauf will give Pakistan greater leverage over future peace talks, Taliban and western officials said.

The report quoting officials said, to ensure that the Pakistani government retains its influence over the Taliban's leadership, the ISI has placed its own representatives on the Quetta shura.

Up to seven of the Afghan Taliban leaders who sit on the 15-man shura are believed to be ISI agents. However, some sources maintain that every member of the shura has ISI links.

"It is impossible to be a member of the Quetta shura without membership of the ISI," said a senior Taliban intermediary who liaises with the Afghan government and Taliban leaders.

The LSE report said: "Interviews strongly suggest that the ISI has representatives on the shura, either as participants or observers, and the agency is thus involved at the highest levels of the movement."

The two shura members who receive the strongest support from the ISI are Taib Agha, former spokesman for Mullah Omar, the Taliban supreme leader, and Mullah Hasan Rahmani, the former Taliban governor of Kandahar, according to the Taliban intermediary and western officials.
Strategies that the ISI encourages, according to Taliban commanders, include: cutting NATO's supply lines by bombing bridges and roads, attacking key infrastructure projects, assassinating pro-government tribal elders, murdering doctors and teachers, closing schools and attacking school girls.

ISI agents hand chits to Taliban commanders who use them to buy weapons at arms dumps in North Waziristan, the report claimed.

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[rwpla]

scum you sure are. Idiotic title with Aljazeera news? Really? Get a life and brain!

[IranContraScumDid911]

@rwpla The news confirms the title, why are people from your country asleep? Your corrupt government does not want you smart. Your government sleeps with the US government to keep a low intensity war in your country ..... for money. Thats scum, you need to wake up. The people protecting you are also covertly destroying your country in violent bloodshed and corruption. If you support you government you LOVE American war, we could not have done it without your heros Musharraf and Zardari.

[affy45]

ISI are not funding them, looks like taliban are still using 1980s weapons, this is all bullshit just pinning shit on pakistan mother fucker, if they were supporting them you know they shoul have wepons leading a trail to the ISI, think about it?

[IranContraScumDid911]

@affy45 You need alot of rockets, IEDs, and bullets to fight a superpower for 10 years. They are not appering in thin air from Allah

[waqasaliics]

Show a valid Proof

[IranContraScumDid911]

@waqasaliics How is the Taliban fighting a superpower for ten years without resupply? Somebody is financing and running supply routes to the fighters. You need alot of bullets and rockets to fight the US Marines for a decade. Show valid proof Pakistan is NOT running the Taliban, with full US and NATO knowledge and support. Pakistan is running a covert double sided false flag war for America. This is about wasting money, not fighting goat herders in caves. Pak military caught in Mumbai 26/11.

[Lushpashable]

Must see this too. /watch?v=L_lKkEreSOM&feature=r­elated - this is the youtube link



[ZeroUnityGain]

@IranContraScumDid911

Stop making sense.

[edifiertheaudioartis]

NO EVIDENCE PRESENTED BY THIS.. ONLY FALSE CLAIMS !