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...Essentially, the Taliban have returned to the cradle in which they were nurtured a decade ago with funding and training by Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). (Accusations persist that rogue ISI agents or ex-agents still back the Taliban.) The border provinces are controlled by Jamiat Ulema Islam, an extremist party that openly harbors the Taliban. In Quetta, 110 kilometers southeast of Chaman, men roam the streets wearing the distinctive black or white robes and black or white turbans characteristic of the Taliban. "We feel relaxed and safe here," says a young Talib. A local cleric says...
...month and furnishing them with guns, rocket-propelled grenades, radios and daily intelligence on where Indian troops are patrolling. For the Bush Administration, this presents a credibility gap. On a visit to Washington last week, General Ehsan ul Haq, chief of Pakistan's leading spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was shown evidence of the ISI's continued dabbling in Kashmir. This was followed up with a warning, say diplomats, that the Bush Administration won't tolerate Pakistan's provocative meddling any longer. And after Gulf War II, such warnings tend to grab people's attention...
...Muzaffarabad, militants say that they were recently told by the ISI to "hibernate"?to lie low in case the upcoming dialogue between India and Pakistan fails to yield any progress. Then, says one commander from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Pakistan's support will resume?covertly, as before. Several of the militants interviewed by Time failed to mask their sense of betrayal by Islamabad. "We feel helpless because we never thought that Pakistan would stop supporting us," says one ex-militant from the Lashkar-e-Toiba who recently gave up his cross-border attacks out of frustration. This indicates that ISI...
...because "he knew too much" that linked top Pakistani bombmakers and intelligence chiefs to al-Qaeda. That claim grows out of an accretion of detail that seems plausible but is hardly airtight: he cites an unnamed policeman who contends that Sheikh secretly surrendered to Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence Agency (ISI) on May 5, 2002, then spent a week in a safe house before allowing himself to be publicly "arrested" by police on May 12. He speculates that one reason Pearl was marked for death was that he had traced the connections of ex-ISI boss Hamid Gul and nuclear scientist...
...course, there's more to high-tech housewares these days than computer chips. The pricey $30 Orka oven mitt from iSi North America is made of silicone, like many new spatulas. Heat-and flame-resistant up to 500°F, the stain-proof glove allows you to pluck hard-boiled eggs and potatoes out of boiling water and grab chicken wings that fall through the barbecue grill. We found the stiff material a little awkward, however, for pulling pans from the oven...