Secret NATO report says Pakistan is helping Taliban
Pakistan's intelligence agency is directly helping the Taliban in Afghanistan and knows where its senior leaders are hiding, the BBC is reporting, citing a secret NATO report.
The report is based on 27,000 interrogations with more than 4,000 captured Taliban, al-Qaeda and other foreign fighters and civilians.
Though it has not yet officially commented, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has denied previous allegations that it supports or is linked to the Taliban.
The BBC's Kabul correspondent said the report "fully exposes for the first time" the relationship between the Taliban and the ISI.
The Pentagon has not seen the NATO report, a spokesman told the BBC.
"We have long been concerned about ties between elements of the ISI and some extremist networks," said Capt. John Kirby.
Sunday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on CBS' 60 Minutes he still believes that someone in the Pakistani government must have known where Osama bin Laden was hiding, though he added he has no proof.
