US : Pak created terror groups |
Pakistan created terror groups such as the Taliban, the Haqqani network and the Lashkar-e-Taiba to keep India “off balance” and protect Islamabad`s interests in war-torn Afghanistan, according to former US diplomats and officials. William Milam, a former US ambassador to Pakistan, and Philip Reiner, a former senior director for South Asia at the National Security Council during the Obama administration, said Pakistan`s notorious spy agency, the ISI, continues to protect and assist these groups, according to The Cipher Brief. The online intelligence news and analysis portal carried interviews and opinion pieces deciphering the “double game” of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Milan told the portal that Pakistan has “no interest in a peaceful Afghanistan that would be under the influence of its arch enemy India and feels keenly the need for a proxy to protect its interests there. They claim to know that Pakistan was present at the creation of the Taliban in the mid-1990s and gave them much support in their fight to take over the country. And that the Haqqani network, which is allied with the Afghan Taliban, has become a good substitute proxy.
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