Nato report rips open Pak ‘double game’ in Afghanistan

Exposing the ISI's "manipulation" of Taliban's senior leadership and its "massive double game", a damning Nato report says that Pakistan government remains "intimately" involved with the Afghan-based terror group.

It leaked out on a day when Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrived in Kabul on a one-day visit for talks with the Afghan leadership.

The Nato report contains accusations that Pakistan is playing a massive double game with the West as it publicly claims to seek a political solution to the Afghan conflict , while still supporting fighters who have killed thousands of international troops. Many of the revelations concern the scale of support to the Taliban provided by Pakistan and the influence of ISI agency.

"The government of Pakistan remains intimately involved with the Taliban," the Telegraph quoted the report as saying.

Reacting to the report, Khar was quoted as saying, "We can disregard this as a potentially strategic leak... This is old wine in an even older bottle." The report is based on material from 27,000 interrogations with more than 4,000 captured Taliban , al-Qaida and other foreign fighters and civilians. It notes: "Pakistan's manipulation of Taliban senior leadership continues unabatedly. Pakistan is aware of locations of Taliban leaders."


Pak: Allegations frivolous, we are committed to peace

Pakistan on Wednesday reacted angrily to a leaked Nato report that accused its security services of helping Afghan Taliban just as foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar began a visit to Kabul, saying the allegations were "frivolous" . "This is frivolous, to put it mildly. We are committed to non-interference in Afghanistan and expect all states to strictly adhere to it," foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said. "We are committed to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process.. A stable, peaceful Afghanistan is in our own interest and we are very much cognizant of this," Basit said. Pakistan, he said, had "suffered enormously because of the long war in Afghanistan".