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Punkish hair? Does any of this seem like Pakistanis, like every mainstream news outlet is saying? Of course not. And everyone who has done even a little basic research knows that Pakistani ISI is fully in the pocket of the USA CIA.
The Nation article shows this as well.
For years Hizb-i-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers. Their leader, Hekmatyar, studied engineering at Kabul University in the 1970s, where he made a name for himself by hurling acid in the faces of unveiled women. Hekmatyar established Hizb-i-Islami to counter growing Soviet influence, and in the 1980s his organization became one of the most extreme fundamentalist parties as well as the leading mujahedeen group fighting the Soviet occupation. Ruthless, powerful and anti-Communist, Hekmatyar proved a capable ally for Washington, which, along with the Saudis, funneled billions of dollars and tons of weapons through the Pakistani ISI to his forces.
Why should we believe, even if there truly is a Pakistani ISI hand in all this, that the money wasn’t funded through this? What is the gain for them, sending in some of their own boys to do this when it would lead to their inevitable death and discovery of their identity as Pakistani? Why would they want to provoke a war with India, which has nuclear capability as well? They aren’t stupid.