Taliban Trove

Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism laws.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency has lashed out against the trove of leaked papers that alleged close connections between it and the Taliban militants who are fighting US, Afghan and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism laws.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency has lashed out against the trove of leaked papers that alleged close connections between it and the Taliban militants who are fighting US, Afghan and NATO troops in Afghanistan.