A secret NATO report based on interviews with some 4,000 captured Taliban fighters claims elements within Pakistan's military and government are still backing the Islamist insurgency in Afghanistan. Leaked to the BBC and Times of London, the report deepened the conviction in Kabul and Washington tha Pakistan plans to dominate its neighbor through proxies like the Taliban— created, in part, by Pakistan's military-intelligence agency. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar dismissed the report as "old wine in an even older bottle." But as trust between the U.S. and Pakistan slumps, she may need to be far more convincing.
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