TITLE

Pakistan's Dirty War

PUB. DATE
August 2010
SOURCE
India Today;8/9/2010, p11
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article discusses the set of documents called the Afghan War Diary that was published online by the Web site WikiLeaks, which showed the involvement of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with the Taliban and in the assaults made on Indian targets in Afghanistan. The document covers the period of 2004 to 2009. The report also links the ISI with the Afghan Taliban groups called the Jalaluddin Haqqani's faction.
ACCESSION #
52885536

Tags: AFGHAN War, 2001-;  WIKILEAKS (Organization);  PAKISTAN. Inter Services Intelligence;  TALIBAN

 

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