To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Didn’t the ISI initially help to set up the Taliban in Afghanistan in the first place?
To: Slapshot68
They instigated the formation of the Taliban in order to have a divided Afghanistan under the rule of an Islamic government that they could control. The ISI has been in the tank with the Taliban and the Islamic fighters since the days of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
5 posted on
07/30/2008 1:40:07 PM PDT by
TheBlueMax
(A nation that believes in nothing will always lose to an enemy that believes in something.)
To: Slapshot68
Many ethnic tribal groups straddle the Afghan/Pakistan border. Essentially they don’t treat it as a border at all. I had read an article that Pakistan’s ISI viewed the (Taliban) control of Afghanistan as lending strategic depth to Pakistan should India invade. I doubt New Delhi wants the problem associated with administering any part of Pakistan, but that doesn’t say that Pakistan doesn’t imagine a threat.
8 posted on
07/30/2008 1:46:34 PM PDT by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Slapshot68
The ISI is a part of the Paki army-all its senior officers are from the military.It is not the
separate entity that some would like the world to believe.
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