A report by the London School of Economics on June 13, 2010, claimed that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) was supporting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. ” ‘This is not a big surprise. This is consistent with 15 years of history,’ said Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A. analyst and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. ‘Life has not changed. The Taliban and the ISI have a very intimate relationship.’ ”
– Carlotta Gall, “Report Says Pakistan Intelligence Agency Exerts Great Sway on Afghan Taliban,” The New York Times, June 13, 2010