Note the Stratfor observation: "The 2009 suicide strike on the key US forward operating base in Afghanistan had hallmarks of an operation carried out by a national intelligence service". It went on to assert that the attack could be the handiwork of Pakistan's ISI. This fact has been clearly established by the declassified DIA cable.
Another State Department cable that was recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request provided corroborative evidence, if one is still necessary. The Haqqani Network's leaders were holding monthly meetings with the ISI in Islamabad as of late December 2009, the cable reported from Pakistani capital.
The fact that the ISI created the Afghan Taliban is public knowledge, though officially America feigned ignorance. On its part, Pakistan has been in a "consistent, years-long denial of relations" according to the Times magazine. The Taliban Shura is based near Quetta. Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's top adviser on foreign affairs, conceded this during a panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Mar 1, 2016.
"We have some influence on them because their leadership is in Pakistan, and they get some medical facilities, their families are here," Aziz said, responding to a question about Pakistan's role in peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan government (Times report, March4, 2016).
This is the most candid admission by a top Pakistani that Afghan insurgents enjoy sanctuary in Pakistan.
The world would like to hear Aziz admit about another ISI creation as well --the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) for operations in Jammu & Kashmir, and several other militant groups like Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM). The 28/11 attack on Mumbai is still a raw wound to my American friends who lost dear ones in the mayhem LeT created.
What truth did DIA cables declassfy for the general public? Well, it is that ISI is unlike any other intelligence agency and that it has created and nurtured terrorist organisations that today have a global reach, working with terrorist networks around the world!
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