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Pakistan to Taliban: You Owe Us

With the new regime courting India, Pakistan suddenly reminded the Taliban who paid the bills all those years.

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Jonathan Broder
Sep 19, 2021
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For the past 20 years, Pakistani officials have indignantly denied providing any assistance to the Taliban, portraying their countrymen as much victims of the Islamist Afghan Pashtun militia as the American soldiers who died fighting them.

And for just as long, U.S. military and intelligence officials have dismissed Pakistan’s denials, accusing its Inter…

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