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Islamabad's reluctance to crack down has allowed Afghan fundamentalists to use Pakistan as a refuge from which to recruit fresh militants and launch cross-border ambushes against U.S. and Afghan troops. Some ex--Taliban fighters even allege that several colonels in Pakistan's security agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), are funding former Taliban protégés through madrasahs, or religious schools, and mosques in border villages. "The ISI knows where the Taliban live," Mujahed says. "They could arrest us all in a day. But they don't bother...
...mountains," probably near Afghanistan. But Musharraf has been forced to delay taking on domestic extremists because of their complicated history with the Pakistani government and army. Some militant organizations now allied to bin Laden were once clandestinely funded and supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving anything but moral support to the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, but militants who have fought there insist they had support from the military.) And when young Pakistanis were...
...will win the White House this fall. Sorting it all out is a TIME panel moderated by senior writer DANIEL KADLEC and including Richard Bernstein, chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch, Gregory Valliere, chief political strategist at Schwab Soundview Capital Markets, and Thomas Gallagher, chief political analyst at ISI Group...
FINANCIALS "There's a good chance that Kerry would go much easier on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," the giant mortgage agencies, says Tom Gallagher, analyst at research firm ISI Group. Bush wants tougher oversight, possibly helping drive up the agencies' borrowing costs. Kerry would probably leave them alone. Investment companies like T. Rowe Price and Schwab Soundview would benefit if Bush gets his way with Social Security savings accounts...
Afghan security officials complain that their Pakistani counterparts continue to tolerate--and even encourage--militancy by the Taliban, which Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, helped create in the mid-1990s in a bid to make Afghanistan a client state. At the highest levels, Pakistan's Establishment remains "nostalgic" for the Taliban, says a Western diplomat. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has cooperated in the hunt for al-Qaeda's top officials but has shown less enthusiasm for rooting out the Taliban. Until Pakistan's security services stop sheltering Taliban leaders, U.S. officials say, Afghanistan will never be free from...