Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace.
Basically, Pakistan funded the Taliban through their conflict with the West, but then the Taliban spread to Pakistan and became a security threat there. Oops.
Pakistan was the slush fund for America. There is not much oopsie there. CIA sent the money to Pakistan and instructed them to fund the Taliban with it.
Uh-huh. And the famously agreeable and famously organised nuclear-armed state of Pakistan just listened.
Is it possible the CIA did some sort of operation that touched on the Pakistan-Taliban relationship? Yes. Are they controlling everything? No, conspiracy theories aren’t real.
In May 1979, U.S. officials secretly began meeting with rebel leaders through Pakistani government contacts. A former Pakistani military official claimed that he personally introduced a CIA official to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar that month. (Freedom of Information Act requests for records describing these meetings have been denied.)[20] Additional meetings were held on 6 April and 3 July, and on the same day as the second meeting, Carter signed two presidential findings permitting the CIA to spend $695,000 on non-military assistance (e.g., “cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters”) and on a propaganda campaign targeting the Soviet-backed leadership of the DRA,
Basically, Pakistan funded the Taliban through their conflict with the West, but then the Taliban spread to Pakistan and became a security threat there. Oops.
Pakistan was the slush fund for America. There is not much oopsie there. CIA sent the money to Pakistan and instructed them to fund the Taliban with it.
Uh-huh. And the famously agreeable and famously organised nuclear-armed state of Pakistan just listened.
Is it possible the CIA did some sort of operation that touched on the Pakistan-Taliban relationship? Yes. Are they controlling everything? No, conspiracy theories aren’t real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
In May 1979, U.S. officials secretly began meeting with rebel leaders through Pakistani government contacts. A former Pakistani military official claimed that he personally introduced a CIA official to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar that month. (Freedom of Information Act requests for records describing these meetings have been denied.)[20] Additional meetings were held on 6 April and 3 July, and on the same day as the second meeting, Carter signed two presidential findings permitting the CIA to spend $695,000 on non-military assistance (e.g., “cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters”) and on a propaganda campaign targeting the Soviet-backed leadership of the DRA,
That was 79’, decades before the period we’re talking about. The CIA didn’t even know the USSR was going to end in order to plan that far ahead.