“As international and domestic pressure mounted on Pakistan to explain its position, [Prime Minister Benazir] Bhutto made the first formal denial of any Pakistani backing of the Taliban in February 1995. ‘We have no favourites in Afghanistan and we do not interfere in Afghanistan,’ she said [according to a February 18, 1995 article in The Nation] while visiting Manila [Philippines].”
– Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 29