The Hindu : ISI directive to Lashkar

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ISI directive to Lashkar

New Delhi July 3. Pakistan has been extending covert support to the militant outfit, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, to carry out subversive activities globally after the Taliban and its militant outfit, Al-Qaeda, fell to the U.S.-led ``War against Terror,'' according to a Home Ministry report.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is understood to have been instrumental in providing the Lashkar-e-Taiba chief, Hafeez Saeed, with the services of the former ISI chief, Hamid Gul, who was instrumental in the creation of the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda.

The directive to the Lashkar-e-Taiba was to concentrate its activities globally rather than in only a few countries, including India, the report said.

India had detected four Lashker cells outside Pakistan, including three in the Gulf countries and one in the eastern neighbourhood which was also used by the killers of the former Gujarat Home Minister, Haren Pandya.

After the onset of ``War against Terror'', the ISI and the Pakistani regime made a complete u-turn against the Taliban and attempted to create an image that it was against the use of its soil by terrorists, the report said.The report, however, said the ISI started providing support to the Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out terrorist operations globally.

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