KABUL: The former head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has claimed that Pakistani intelligence services helped Taliban leaders and the feared Haqqani network in 2014 and 2015.

According to details, Rahmatullah Nabi, who stepped down from the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in December last year, released documents on Thursday which he said showed that Pakistan remained a ‘facilitator’ to the Taliban leaders and Haqqani network.

In a press conference in Kabul, Nabil said: “These documents will provide concrete evidence of Pakistan’s collusion with the Taliban and the associated Haqqani group, which has been blamed for a series of kidnappings and high-profile suicide bombings in the capital.”

“For the past 14 years, no one has disclosed documents of this kind. Here, I’m proving it,” he told reporters. “They kill us every day and commit all kinds of atrocities, we have to show them.”

However, the former intelligence chief did not disclose how he obtained the letters.

The documents included a letter, dated March 2015, requesting an update on Haqqani network personnel in Nowshera, Mardan, and Swabi, in the border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Another letter addressed from the Directorate General Military Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, dated July 2014, is headed “Kabul Airport Attacks and Release of Payments”.

The letter says four members of the Haqqani network are to be paid 2.5 million Pakistani rupees ($24,000) each for the “successful and comprehensive execution of assault on KB AP”.

Rahmatullah Nabil stepped down from the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in December last year after opposing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s efforts to improve relations with Pakistan and include Islamabad in peace talks with the Taliban.

Since retiring from the intelligence service, Nabil has been strongly critical of Pakistan, which is routinely accused by Afghanistan of sponsoring the Afghan Taliban, a charge it has consistently denied.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office rejects the accusations

Foreign Office Islamabad has rejected the accusations by the former Afghan intelligence head and said that Pakistan had not provided any support and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban and its leaders.

In a statement, the FO said that Pakistan itself has been a victim of terrorism for years, much of it from groups based in Afghanistan.

Pakistan said that Afghanistan was playing a “blame game” instead of cooperating effectively to stop terrorism.