Pakistan rejects Taliban "blame games" Pakistan tried to prevent fresh claims that it backs Taliban insurgents overshadowing its attempts to mend ties with Afghanistan by calling for an end to "blame games" over the region's conflicts. Islamabad, anxious about what will happen in Afghanistan as foreign forces withdraw, wants to soothe tensions triggered by the murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president, in September. IN Pakistan The killing unleashed public anger against Pakistan, which has a record of backing Afghan insurgent factions stretching back to the US and Saudi funded jihad against Soviet invaders in the 1980s. Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's foreign minister, visited Kabul on Wednesday for the first high-profile official trip since the murder, hoping to glean a greater insight into Afghanistan's attempts to kindle dialogue with insurgents. The trip coincided with the leak of a US military report detailing testimony from captured militants who told their interrogators that Pakistan's InterServices Intelligence agency has close links with the Taliban. Ms Khar dismissed the report and called for an end to "blame games" over Afghanistan. We can disregard this as a potentially strategic leak . . . This is old wine in an even older bottle," she told reporters in Kabul. The testimony from captured insurgents painted a bleak picture of the Kabul's progress in asserting its authority as Isaf, the Nato-led force in Afghanistan, starts to scale back its numbers in the country. "Many Afghans are already bracing themselves for an eventual return of the Taliban," the report said. A Pakistani official said the report had little impact on Mrs Khar's trip since it was barely raised in meetings with Afghan officials and politicians. The classified report, obtained by The Times and the BBC, was based on interrogations of some 4,000 captured fighters from the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Many of them said ISI officials regularly met insurgent leaders to offer advice and direct operations. Pakistan knows the location of Taliban leaders and continues to manipulate them "unabatedly," the report said. However, the report said detainees provided little evidence to suggest that Pakistan was providing funding or weapons. Some independent analysts also questioned how far evidence from interrogations alone could be relied on to paint a complete picture of the complex cross-border insurgency, in which many factions exert considerable autonomy. The document detailed prisoners" claims that most of Pakistan's support came from ISI-sponsored Punjabi militant groups based in North Waziristan and Baluchistan, near the Afghan border. It said they provided "electronics expertise, remote detonators, advanced explosives, mines and suicide vests." The testimony is consistent with a belief among western officials that Pakistan is hedging its bets by maintaining links with the insurgency while exploring the possibility that a negotiated settlement might one day deliver stability to its neighbour. Pakistan has allowed Taliban representatives to travel to Qatar, which the US hopes will be a hub for contacts, according to Afghan and Pakistani officials, although the start of substantive talks might be many months away. The leaked document suggested that the Taliban was gaining popularity partly because the austere movement was becoming more tolerant.