US considers ISI as terrorist organisation: report

London:US authorities have described Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency as a terrorist organisation and considered it as much of a threat as al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Recommendations to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay rank the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate alongside al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon as threats, ‘The Guardian’ reported quoting secret US files obtained by it.
“Being linked to any of these groups is an indication of terrorist or insurgent activity,” the documents dated September 2007 said.
“Through associations with these…organisations, a detainee may have provided support to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or engaged in hostilities against US or coalition forces (in Afghanistan),” the document said.
The fresh revelation on ISI links with terror groups, The Guardian said, comes on the heels of its own “published evidence” that US intelligence services had been receiving reports of ISI support for the Taliban in Afghanistan for many years.