UK also suspects ISI role in Afghanistan

The United States has accused Pakistan’s main spy agency of deliberately undermining Nato efforts in Afghanistan by helping the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants they are supposed to be fighting, reports The Sunday Times.

US President George W Bush confronted Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani in Washington last week with evidence of involvement by the Pakistani intelligence agency in a deadly attack on the Afghan capital and warned of retaliation if it continues.

Gillani, on his first official US visit since being elected in February, was left in no doubt that the Bush administration had lost patience with the ISI’s alleged double game. Bush warned that if one more attack in Afghanistan or elsewhere were traced back to Pakistan, he would have to take “serious action”.

Gillani also met Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, who confronted him with a dossier on ISI support for the Taliban.

The key evidence concerned last month’s bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, which killed 54 people, including the military attachT, according to The Sunday Times.