WASHINGTON DC – Pakistan has been playing a double role in Afghanistanwhile dealing with the Taliban, alleged a veteran United States armycolonel, Lawrence Sellin.

Sellin, who has served in Afghanistan, northern Iraq and a humanitarianmission of West Africa, wrote in The Daily Caller that Pakistan’sInter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provided arms and ammunition to Talibanfighters in October 2001, just after US bombing of Afghanistan began.

The then Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf held a meeting withISI director Lt. Gen. Mahmod Ahmed and other top brass of the army, whoargued that Pakistan should not help the United States at all in its waragainst the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

“Pakistan has continued for seventeen years. While accepting billions ofdollars in military and economic aid, Pakistan has been slowly bleeding theUS to death in Afghanistan through its support of the Taliban, HaqqaniNetwork, said colonel (retd.) Sellin.

America and it’s allies have lost around 4,000 soldiers and over 20,000 USand NATO soldiers have been injured in Afghanistan.

Shortly before his death in 2015, Lt. General Hamid Gul, the former head ofPakistan’s ISI, a committed Islamist and known as the “godfather of theTaliban”, explained Pakistan’s strategy in Afghanistan in an Urdutelevision interview.

“One day, history will say the ISI drove the Soviet Union out ofAfghanistan with the help of USA and another sentence will be recorded thatsays the ISI drove the USA out of Afghanistan with the help of the USA”.