Report finds Taliban commanders believe they are managed by Pakistani intelligence service

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 a 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.

Centre Director, Professor James Putzel, commented, 'This report is based on research carried out inside Afghanistan, including interviews with important Taliban commanders, who clearly believe that they are being "run" by Pakistan's intelligence service....... - Pakistan's intelligence service and the Taliban

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