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A secret Nato report published by British media shows that the Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly assisted by Pakistani security services.

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The report says that the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, "is thoroughly aware of Taliban activities and the whereabouts of all senior Taliban personnel".

The Taliban remain defiant and are widely supported by the Afghan people, according to the report.

The report, initially published by the Times of London and the BBC, has reportedly been derived from 27,000 interrogations with more than 4,000 captured Taliban, al-Qaeda and other foreign fighters and civilians.

"Pakistan's manipulation of the Taliban senior leadership continues unabatedly," the report was quoted as saying.

"Pakistan knows everything. The Taliban are not Islam, the Taliban are Islamabad," the report says.

Part of the report which has been seen by TOLOnews says the Haqqani Network conducts most of the Taliban's "large-scale operations" in Kabul and the Taliban have designated the Afghan capital as "free area", in which any commander can conduct operation without prior coordination with the local command.