WASHINGTON: US Vice-President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Thursday that Pakistan’s intelligence agency was “changing” its behaviour towards Afghanistan.

Mr Biden downplayed leaked documents which suggested that between 2004 and 2009, elements of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), armed, trained and financed the Taliban despite Islamabad’s anti-terror alliance with Washington.

“I’m getting very close to what I shouldn’t be talking about in terms of classification,” said Mr Biden on NBC’s “Today” show.

“But what was talked about in those leaks were the intelligence community within the ISI. That is the sort of the CIA of Pakistan.

“That has been a problem in the past. It is a problem we’re dealing with and is changing.”—AFP
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