A column by an Indian SME and ex-RAW insider. The full title being:
Don’t Blame The ISI
It didn’t create the Taliban. The elected government of Pakistan did
Link:http://indianexpress.com/article/opi...blame-the-isi/

It starts:
Some commentators have described the late General Hamid Gul as the father of the Taliban. Gul was no doubt the most virulent anti-Indian face among all ISI chiefs.
But it is not true that he created the Taliban, which was the brainchild of General Naseerullah Babar, Benazir Bhutto’s interior minister during her second tenure as prime minister (1993-96). Benazir did not trust the ISI. She tried to cut it down to size by firing Gul during her first tenure (1988-1990) for the ISI’s failure to oversee mujahideen operations to capture Jalalabad after the 1989 Soviet withdrawal.