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Pakistan's ISI covertly running the government, coordinating Taliban
The Pakistani intelligence services, Inter-Service Intelligence agency, is continuing to covertly support terrorist movements in both Pakistan and Afghanistan through its shadowy Directorate S, that is believed to be staffed by pro-terrorist Islamist members of the Pakistani military, according to intelligence sources.
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
The ISI element provides money, military supplies and planning support to Taliban leaders through ISI liaison with the terrorist groups. Intelligence reports have indicated that the ISI liaison officers from Directorate S meet regularly with the Taliban to help coordinate the insurgency in Afghanistan.
The connections between the ISI and terrorists have been a major U.S. intelligence target for the past 10 years and is said to be corroborated by human informants and electronic intelligence.
The intelligence contradicts repeated claims by Pakistani government, military and intelligence officials who have denied any connection.
According to U.S. sources, the motivation for the ISI Directorate S backing is to counteract alleged Indian government influence to groups in Afghanistan, although the Islamist orientation of the Directorate S is believed to be the real reason.
The ISI was the main backer for the Taliban and their rise to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s and that the ties have remained.
According to the sources, Directorate S is backing three main groups in Afghanistan, the Quetta-based Taliban, the Gulbuddin Hekmatyar terrorist network and a third group led by Jalaluddin Haqqanni.
Meanwhile, intelligence sources said Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari is not the real center of power in nuclear-armed Pakistan, but the state is in fact ruled by the head of intelligence and the chief of the armed forces.
The two key figures in power-sharing in Pakistan are ISI Director Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha whose term was extended last week, and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who controls Pakistan's powerful military forces


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