How ISI paid Taliban to hit Indians

New Delhi: Backing New Delhi’s finding that the ISI was actively involved in attacks on Indians working in Afghanistan, intelligence documents leaked on Sunday reveal that the Pakistani spy agency paid the Taliban and the Haqqani terror network to target Indian missions, road workers, doctors and engineers working in the country.

US military documents, part of over 90,000 internal logs made public by website WikiLeaks, reveal that intelligence agencies received regular inputs on the ISI paying terror outfits to plan and execute attacks against Indian interests in Afghanistan.
A March 2008 intelligence report said the ISI paid the Haqqani network $15,000-30,000 to eliminate Indian nationals working on the key Zaranj-Delaram road project and target engineers and road workers. The report said that "in one particular case, it was reported that the ISI ordered Serajuddin Haqqani to eliminate Indian nationals working in Afghanistan" and to kidnap "doctors, officers, engineers and labourers" working on the road project.
A month later, two engineers of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) working on the project were killed in an attack by a suicide bomber that also left six Indians injured, including three road workers. The attacker was one of the Afghan labourers engaged for the project.

Another intelligence report, that came from the Polish a week before the July 2008 attack on the Indian mission in Kabul, warned that the Taliban was planning an attack on the embassy and would use a stolen car to strike.
The report said the budget of the operation was $120,000 and would be carried out to "show TB's abilities to carry out attack on every object in Kabul" -- TB is a reference to the Taliban.
"TB designated an engineer -- to take this action. He intends to use stolen ANA/ANP car, and wear stolen uniform. He speaks Dari with distinct Iranian accent."
India lost two officers, including an IFS officer and a Brigadier, in the attack that almost brought down the mission building in Kabul. Investigations revealed that the attackers used explosives and tank shells in the suicide vehicle that had been manufactured in Pakistan.

The most direct report on the connection between the ISI and the Haqqani network is a "threat report" that the US military received in November 2007, seven months before the first attack on the Indian mission. It revealed that the ISI gave orders to one of its agents to orchestrate an attack on Indian consulates in Afghanistan.
The ISI, the report says, gave orders to an agent identified as Sarkateep to establish relations with local Afghans to conduct attacks against Indian consulates in Jalalabad, Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif. It said Sarkateep "established relations with a driver whose name is Sardar Shah (an employee of the Indian consulship in Jalalabad) and he is going to establish relations with another Afghan employee. After that he will go to Kabul".
While there are several reports that indicate links between the ISI and the Taliban -- one talks of a plot to import poisoned alcohol from Pakistan to kill Afghan and coalition troops -- some which mentioned Indian interests were shared with New Delhi.
These leaked reports are the first official confirmation that the US had leads on the links between ISI, Taliban and the Haqqani network in coordinating attacks against Indians in Afghanistan.