Pakistani Agents "Funding and Training Afghan Taliban", BBC News, 12 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says. Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested that ISI intelligence agents even attend Taliban supreme council meetings. Support for the Afghan Taliban was 'official ISI policy', the London School of Economics (LSE) authors suggest. Pakistan's military denied the claims. A spokesman said the allegations were 'rubbish' and part of a malicious campaign against the country's military and security agencies. The LSE report comes at the end of one of the deadliest weeks for Nato troops in Afghanistan, with more than 30 soldiers killed. "

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Related articles:
Pakistan denies supporting Taliban, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 13 June 2010
Afghanistan says ISI tied to attacks on its soil, Times of India, 26 May 2010

Related resources:
[pdf], London School of Economics (c/o Foreign Policy's ), 12 June 2010
, Foreign Policy, 12 June 2010
, Al Jazeera / YouTube, 12 June 2010
Fifteen Ways ISI Twists the Afghanistan Story, The Public Record, 21 May 2010

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