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Ahmed Rashid

Pakistani journalist and author on the Taliban.

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Claim of U.S. support for the Taliban, 1999 said in 2000 that the U.S. gave no material aid but encouraged Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to back the Taliban According to Ahmed Rashid Scholarship & press 1
Foreign backing of the Taliban HRW cites his account that Bhutto’s interior minister created a cell to fund the Taliban Scholarship & press 2

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The Taliban: Ahmed Rashid and his passion for Afghanistan (interview, broadcast 8 October 2000), Radio Netherlands Archives, 8 Oct 2000. Scholarship & press
I don’t think the Americans gave material aid to the Taliban, but they certainly encouraged Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to back the Taliban, to fund the Taliban and give military aid to the Taliban.
Afghanistan: Crisis of Impunity: The Role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in Fueling the Civil War, Human Rights Watch, Jul 2001. Scholarship & press
According to Ahmed Rashid, Bhutto's interior minister, Gen. Naseerullah Babar, created the Afghan Trade Development Cell in the ministry ostensibly to promote trade routes to Central Asia but also to provide the Taliban with funds.

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