Musharraf told our people that he had no choice but to cooperate with the Americans. He said they had told him “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” and threatened to “bomb us back to the Stone Age” if we stood against them. But we weren’t exactly cooperating, as the ISI was still arming Taliban fighters and giving their leaders sanctuary in Quetta. They even persuaded the Americans to let them fly hundreds of Pakistani fighters out of northern Afghanistan. The ISI chief asked the Americans to hold off their attack on Afghanistan until he had gone to Kandahar to ask the
...more
