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Cheers, Muhammed Hanif. Still, this is going to shake up relations between the US and Pakistan even further - not to mention within Pakistan where divisions between the ISI and the army are already a potential source of political tension. Who will be running Pakistan this time next year? Musharraf and the army - or the Taliban-sympathising ISI?
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Mullah Omar 'hiding in Pakistan'
Taleban leader Mullah Omar is living in Pakistan under the protection of its ISI intelligence agency, a captured Taleban spokesman has said...
Asked about Mullah Omar, he says: "He lives in Quetta."
"He is protected by the ISI," Mr Hanif adds, referring to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai made similar allegations last year.
Mr Hanif also alleges that former ISI head Hamid Gul is supporting the Taleban against Afghan and foreign troops.
The ISI was instrumental in backing the Taleban after civil war swept Afghanistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989.
Fantastic. Of course it could all be part of Pakistan-Afghanistan governmental-level tensions, but still, it doesn't help.
