![]() ![]() Only a decade earlier, in the 1980s, it was these very tribal regions that had been used as staging posts by the mujahideen from across the world, armed by the CIA, funded by Saudi Arabia and trained by the ISI of Pakistan, for carrying out jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Under pressure from the US and attracted by the generous financial inducements subsequently offered by the Americans, Pakistan then ruled by the late General Pervez Musharraf joined the “Global War on Terrorism” and actively assisted US forces in hunting down operatives of al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups from Central and West Asia, Chechnya, Xinjiang, South East Asia and other parts of the world who had been provided shelter by local residents of the tribal regions of Pakistan. Don't miss | Nirupama Subramanian writes: Pervez Musharraf, the architect of Kargil War, who went from dictator to fugitive ![]()
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