ISI is helping Taliban , Al Qaeda , Tableegh Jamat and other Terrorist Groups in Pakistan and abroad

Submitted by Nikhil (India), Jul 2, 2008 at 08:23

Our top priority should be taming ISI as this is an evil organisation which is backstabbing US led Western Coalition and is responsible for rising Taliban and Stronger Al Qaeda.

People are Hamid Gul and others are vocal in opposing US led Western Forces and call for a jehad.

General Hamid Gul and Colonel Sultan Amir Imam, pro-Taliban and pro–al Qaeda Pakistani leaders, gave widely reported speeches at government and military institutions in Pakistan calling for jihad against the United States and the Afghan government.53 In sum, individuals within the ISI and other Pakistan government agencies provided several types of assistance: ensuring that wounded Taliban and other insurgents received medical aid training insurgents at camps in Pakistan providing intelligence providing financial assistance assisting with logistics in crossing the border. DOWNLOAD COMPLETE REPORT http://www.ran d.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG595.pdf Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan RAN D Counterinsurgency Study -- Volume 4 By: Seth G. Jones

This study explores the nature of the insurgency in Afghanistan, the key challenges and successes of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign, and the capabilities necessary to wage effective counterinsurgency operations. By examining the key lessons from all insurgencies since World War II, it finds that most policymakers repeatedly underestimate the importance of indigenous actors to counterinsurgency efforts. The U.S. should focus its resources on helping improve the capacity of the indigenous government and indigenous security forces to wage counterinsurgency. It has not always done this well. The U.S. military-along with U.S. civilian agencies and other coalition partners-is more likely to be successful in counterinsurgency warfare the more capable and legitimate the indigenous security forces (especially the police), the better the governance capacity of the local state, and the less external support that insurgents receive.

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