Taliban intact and getting Pakistan backing, Nato report reveals Many of the reports most serious revelations concern the scale of support to the Taliban provided by Pakistan and the influence of its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency. "The Government of Pakistan remains intimately involved with the Taliban," says the report, which was leaked to The Times newspaper and the BBC. The ISI is "thoroughly aware of Taliban activities and the whereabouts of all senior Taliban personnel," it claims. Senior Taliban leaders regularly meet with ISI officers "who advise on strategy and relay any pertinent concerns of the Government of Pakistan." Nato headquaters in Kabul said the report was not an analysis of the state of the military campaign. Lt Col Jimmie Cummings, spokesman, said the document "may provide some level of representative sampling of Taliban opinions and ideals but clearly should not be used as any interpretation of campaign progress." The report was compiled using interrogation testimony from more than 4,000 Taliban and al Qaeda detainees held at the American-run prison at Bagram airbase, north of Kabul. Prisoners told interrogators that Pakistan maintained comprehensive links with the Taliban to offer advice and expertise, though there was little evidence it was providing money or weapons. The ISI remained "fundamentally opposed" to Mr Karzai's government because of its perceived support for India. Prisoners appeared to deny it was only rogue elements of the ISI who had maintained their links with the Taliban. The report said detainees "consistently dismiss the possibility that certain ISI elements or individuals could act independently of official Pakistani guidance." The findings were disclosed as Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's foreign minister, made her first visit to Kabul to discuss Pakistan's role in tentative peace contacts to be held in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. A Pakistan government official said the timing of the leak would undermine any prospect of progress in improving relations between the two countries. "There's only one way to interpret this," he said. A spokesman for the foreign ministry dismissed the allegations in the report as "frivolous" and said Pakistan had suffered enormously from instability in Afghanistan. "We are committed to non-interference in Afghanistan and expect all other states to strictly adhere to this principle," he said. The report makes grim reading for Western politicians who have spent billions of pounds in the past decade trying to prop up Mr Karzai's government and defeat the Taliban. It says Afghans "frequently prefer Taliban governance over the Afghan government, usually as a result of government corruption." The strategy of gradually handing over territory to the newly-built Afghan forces, which is the central plank of Nato strategy, seemed to be failing. The report said that in areas where Nato had withdrawn, Taliban influence had increased, often with little or no resistance from government security forces.