The Pakistani military and intelligence establishments (Inter Services Intelligence - ISI), are believed by many in the West (and Afghanistan), to have nurtured and helped the Afghani Taliban for the last 30 years ....
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| Pakistan And The Taliban - Marching Side By Side? |
... they have always denied this, but their denials were easy to make and hard for the Western powers to disprove, without exposing intelligence assets to serious risk. Something that they can't afford.

