This English language document is linked with AFGP-2002-008581 and contains a series of communication logs from 1989 to 1993 between Haqqani network commanders, mujahidin leaders and what are believed to be representatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). They show the ISI providing tactical level direction and shaping the activity of an inter-linked network of mujahidin commanders spread across Afghanistan. Other messages are more tactical and request Jalaluddin’s presence in Islamabad for a meeting or for other commanders to attend a shura at Haqqani’s house in Miranshah. These communications also functioned as a way for Jalaluddin and other Haqqani commanders to request assistance and equipment and provide intelligence updates to the ISI.

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