Pakistan Is It's Own Worst Enemy Where The Taliban Are Concerned

Following the withdrawal of Soviet Forces from Afghanistan in 1988 a political and military vacuum was created Pakistan which shares a long border with that country saw opportunity to influence and perhaps control (from the background) any future government in Afghanistan.  Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) sought to create a proxy movement which could, with ISI's  oversight, funding and training achieve a political and military victory in a country torn apart by war.  Further assistance was provided by Nasrullah Barbar the Pakistan's Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Pakistan founded the Taliban.  

  "In 1994, with the failure of [Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's alliance] attempt to oust [the Afghan] Rabbani [administration], Pakistan found itself in an awkward position. Hekmatyar had proved incapable of seizing and controlling defended territory: in this respect he was a bitter disappointment to his patrons. ... In October 1994, [Pakistani interior minister] Babar [took] a group of Western ambassadors (including the US Ambassador to Pakistan John C. Monjo) to Kandahar, without even bothering to inform the Kabul government, even though it manned an embassy in Islamabad. ... On 29 October 1994, a convoy of trucks, including a notorious ISI officer, Sultan Amir ... and two figures who were later to become prominent Taliban leaders, entered Afghanistan."^[9]    

Following the attacks of 11 September 2001 Pakistan's government claimed they were no longer providing logistical, military training or funding to the Taliban.  It just wasn't true.

It's believed that Pakistan during the rule of General Pervez Musharraf was complicit in providing safe harbor for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.  General Musharraf at one point signed a peace treaty with the Taliban which they promptly broke with attacks in the Swat valley.  

Thus when stories spread of Pakistani military barbarity in the campaign against the Taliban in Pakistan – reports which included the execution of Taliban prisoners in Waziristan, whose bodies were left to lie upon the roads to be eaten by animals – the more certain became the revenge of the Taliban. The children of the military officers, educated at the army school just down the road from the famous Edwardes College in Peshawar – were the softest and most obvious of targets. For many years, the ISI and the Pakistani army helped to fund and arm the mujahedin and then the Taliban in Afghanistan. 

For years, the Pakistani authorities have insisted that the old loyalties of individual military and security police officers to the Taliban have been broken – and that the Pakistani military forces are now fully dedicated to what the Americans used to call the “war on terror”.