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contradictory!!!
Sorry for grave-digging this thread, but the Taliban was not created by ISI.
The book your compatriot mentioned:
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden - Steve Coll - Google Books
Highlights that the Taliban was formed in Kandahar, in resistance to the numerous warlords ruling the country. Their first few goals was to unite the country and to bring back the king of the country, Zahir Shah. Pakistani intelligence, however, never supported any Royalist faction or Mujahid leader during the Afghan war. It was only after numerous Taliban gains that leaders like Benazir Bhutto had begun to believe they could work with the Taliban and possibly connect Pakistan to the newly-formed Central Asian states. Now, you can complain that Pakistan should have never been involved with the Taliban. Surely there was an alternative? Who do you propose? The countless warlords and drug-traffickers and tribal leaders running rampant in the country? Like Iran, Russia, China and India did? Sure they were some of the most depraved and corrupt men out there, but they weren't Islamic fundamentalists bringing stone-age laws, right? Oh damn, scratch that, most of them originally fought against the Soviet Union to form an Islamic state governed by Shariah.
Average Iranian's knowledge of pakistan is limited to 3 words : Poor eastern neighbor.
And I always thought the average Iranian's knowledge of Pakistan was limited to 4 words: Evil Wahabist-Zionist puppet.
6) 1973, Daoud overthrew his cousin Zahir Shah and declared Afghanistan a republic.
7) Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto responded by supporting an Islamist movement in Afghanistan >>>>> The problem began here.
It seems you've brushed aside how hostile Afghanistan had been in Pakistan for the much of the late 20th century. We were invaded twice by Afghanistan, were facing Soviet subversion in KPK, Balochistan and East Pakistan and were expected to sit back and watch as our country was being amputated. I'll tell you where the problem starts. It started off when
India sold itself off to the Soviet Union and became a centre of operations for the KGB. We all like to whine and moan about the United States and their dirty doings in the world but that's because the US was democratic enough to divulge most of their secrets under the Freedom of Information act. Most of the KGB secrets will remain secrets and we will only ever know what they were doing in the sub-continent by taking a leaf out of what they were doing elsewhere.
