I really dont know how every time someone mentions Taliban and Pakistan together you can call it an unsubstantiated accusation based on speculative drivel.
I can call it that because the people making the accusations offer no evidence to back it up, and the 'strongest evidence' so far, the wikileaks 'intelligence reports', have been derided and dismissed by many Western analysts as 'unsubstantiated and unverified' themselves.
Yes the CIA did support the Taliban but the ISI and the Pakistani government have an equally important hand in the creation and breeding of the taliban. Its funny how on one hand you call the ISI the strongest intelligence agency in the world by referencing their role in the creation of the taliban during the Soviet-Afghan war and on the other hand you call an unsubstantiated accusation the second someone calls on the ties between Pakistan and terrorism. Double standards galore, thats called only accepting facts that suit you.
If you would actually read my post, instead of engaging in knee jerk criticizm of any Pakistani who points out the fact that the accusations are 'unsubstantiated', you would realize that your post has nothing whatsoever to do with the point I was making. Yes the CIA and ISI both had hands in the training and support of insurgents in the past, and my point is precisely that one cannot use the argument that the ISI alone is still supporting the Taliban because of that past relationship, since the CIA/US too would then be similarly guilty of Pakistani accusations of 'support of the TTP' and India guilty of 'support for the TTP and Baluch terrorists', since both nations have had relationships with similar groups or the same groups in the past.
There is an issue of lack of comprehension here - past support does not imply current support, otherwise India and the US are also both guilty of Pakistani accusations. Only credible evidence can prove current Pakistani support, and despite the West and India trying all sorts of propaganda tricks and deceitful coverage based on rumor and hearsay (LSE reports and the wikileaks reports, Headley confessions) the fact is that there is no credible evidence linking the ISI to support for the Taliban or any other terrorist organization or act.
The only double standards here are when Indians ask for evidence in the case of Pakistani accusations of Indian support for terrorism, yet refuse to apply the same standards in the case of accusations directed at Pakistan. And again, when the US accuses Iran of supporting the Taliban, Indians dismiss the allegations as propaganda and offer all sorts of excuses as to why that is not possible, because they seek to use Iran as a hedge against Pakistan, yet are completely willing to believe Pakistani complicity with the Taliban, despite less categorical statements from US officialdom, and just as little credible evidence implicating Pakistan as there is implicating Iran.
