A UN report slams Pakistan's spy agency ISI for having close links with terror organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba. Endorsing India's long-held stand, the report says, the military-backed spy agency has used the terror group's services to foment anti-India passion in Kashmir and elsewhere. It says, the Pakistani military organised and supported the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan in 1996 and similar tactics were used in Kashmir against India after 1989.The startling revelations were made in the much-awaited report by UN-appointed independent panel to probe the killing of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto. The three-member panel concluded that such a policy of the Pakistan military to use terrorists as a tool to achieve its strategic objectives against its neighbours resulted in active linkages between elements of the military and the Establishment with radical Islamists at the expense of national secular forces. Noting that the jihadi organisations are Sunni groups based largely in Pakistan's Punjab, the 65-page report said that members of these groups aided the Taliban effort in Afghanistan at the behest of the ISI and later cultivated ties with Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban groups. The report is also highly critical of the then military government of General Parvez Musharraf for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. It says, Ms. Bhutto's killing could have been prevented if adequate security measures had been taken. The report elaborated that responsibility for Bhutto's security on the day of her assassination rested with the federal government, the government of Punjab and the Rawalpindi district police. The UN report also says the authorities failed to investigate the crime properly.