“The Pakistani military organised and supported the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan in 1996. Similar tactics were used in Kashmir against India after 1989,” said the much-awaited report by the UN-appointed independent panel which probed the killing of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto in an endorsement of India’s long-held stand. Such a policy of the Pakistan military was at the expense of national secular forces, it said.
Published 16 April 2010, 19:19 IST