ISI funded Kabul airport attack, says Afghan ex-intel chief

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At a time when Islamabad is stoking separatism fire in India, Afghanistan's former chief of its spy agency NDS, Rahmatullah Nabil has accused Pakistan's ISI for paying 2.5 million Pakistani rupees to each terrorist who carried out attacks on Kabul airport in July 2014 and that Pak has reactivated Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan that were closed due to US pressure.

In an article written for Afghanistan's Tolo news website, Nabil produced some internal official communication papers of Pakistan's ISI sent from its central office in Islamabad to MI-422 office in Swaba, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where it directed the office to thank that the figures that successfully plotted the attack on Kabul Airport (now Hamid Karzai International Airport) and gave 2.5 million Pakistani rupees to for every one of the people involved in the attack. These men were Haji Khalil Haqqani, Haji Hakim Woluswal, Qari Zahir Shah and Mawlawi Hakim. "Moreover, the office was directed to donate 1.5 million Pakistani rupees to the families of those that were involved in the attack," Nabil said.

He further added the Haqqani organisation is strong source for Pakistan's intelligence for the strengthening al-Qaeda, fueling the flames of war and terrorism in Afghanistan as well as against international troops. "In the same way Pakistan uses lashkar-e-Tayyeba against India," Nabil said while adding USA was aware of these Pak activities.

He added that the flexibility in Iran-US bilateral ties, alongside India's soft and patient economic and political diplomacy and expansion of cooperation between India and Iran, paved way to diminish Pakistan's importance among serious regional players. 

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