Pakistan and State Terrorism - Inter-Services Intelligence and Terrorism

Inter-Services Intelligence and Terrorism

The ISI, has often been accused of playing a role in major terrorist attacks across the world including

• terrorism in Kashmir,
• the July 2006 Mumbai Train Bombings,
• the 2001 Indian Parliament attack,
• the 2006 Varanasi bombings,
• the August 2007 Hyderabad bombings and
• the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The ISI is also accused of supporting Taliban forces and recruiting and training mujahideen to fight in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Based on communication intercepts, US intelligence agencies concluded Pakistan's ISI was behind the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008, a charge that the governments of India and Afghanistan had laid previously.

The Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has regularly reiterated allegations that militants operating training camps in Pakistan have used it as a launch platform to attack targets in Afghanistan, urged Western military allies to target extremist hideouts in neighbouring Pakistan. In response to the millants from Afghanistan hiding in the mountainous tribal reigion of Pakistan . The US and Pakistan agreed to allow US Drone Strikes in Pakistan.

Several detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility told US interrogators that they were aided by the ISI for attacks in the disputed Kashmir Region.