London, Nov 30: Pakistani intelligence officials opposed to Islamabad's support to war on terror are equipping Taliban fighters with motorbikes, weapons and satellite phone to carrying out drive-by attacks on American troops and peacekeepers, media reports said.
Despite Islamabad's much hyped support for the US-led
war on terror, the 'Sunday Telegraph' quoting Taliban
commanders said that individual officials of the Inter-Service
Intelligence (ISI) are backing the Afghan rebels.
The deal with individual Pakistani intelligence
officials was struck at a meeting in a safe house in Kila
Abdulla, a small Pakistani town near the Afghan border, the
commanders said.
Many members of the ISI are opposed to Pakistan's
support for the war on terror. The agency backed the Taliban
in the mid-1990s and senior officials are still closely
aligned with them.
The Taliban's negotiations with ISI officials are said
to be led by Hamid Aghaf and Mullah Qudratullah Jamal, members
of the Shura (council) set up by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the
Taliban supreme leader, to lead the new jihad against foreign
forces and their local allies.
Mullah Jamal travelled to Pakistan for talks with ISI
officials last month, the Taliban commander said, following up
the deal to supply 700 motorbikes, rocket-propelled grenades,
Kalashnikov rifles, wireless sets, dozens of satellite phones,
torches and radios.
Bureau Report
