Although Pakistan is officially an ally of the international coalition battling the Taliban in Afghanistan, the ISI has faced a battery of accusations of playing a double game. The ISI is reportedly still close to Omar, whom it backed as the leader of the 1996-2001 Taliban regime in Kabul. Pakistan has always strongly denied such charges, and the Post quoted its Washington ambassador, Husain Haqqani, as saying that the Eclipse report "had no basis whatsoever." AFP |