Pakistan has been using camps in Afghanistan to train the terrorists fighting in Kashmir, former UN and CIA officials have said.
Pakistan's long-time support of the Taliban has "enabled Pakistan to relocate its training camps for Kashmiri separatists to Afghanistan," said Charles Santos, a former political advisor to the UN on Afghanistan. In that way, Pakistan has been "benefitting from extremist networks in Afghanistan and providing Pakistan with plausible deniability," he said in prepared remarks presented to a House International Relations Committee hearing into terrorism. Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of counter terrorism operations for the CIA, added that Pakistan's military intelligence service, the Inter Services Intelligence(ISI), was actively involved. "ISI personnel are present, in Mufti, to conduct the training," Cannistraro said. "This arrangement allowed Pakistan 'plausible denial' that it is promoting insurgency in Kashmir". Bureau Report