June 21, 2010

The Taliban & the ISI

London School of Economics & Political Science, London School of Economics & Political Science

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Taliban commanders inside Afghanistan believe that their organisations, and the war efforts they are currently undertaking, are closely managed by the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI.  This was the key finding of this report authored by Matt Waldman, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, published this week in the Discussion Papers series of the LSE's Crisis States Research Centre.

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