User:YousafzaiKunar/Rahmatullah Nabil

Rahmatullah Nabil. The picture was taken at the National Directorate of Intelligence (NDS).

Mr. Nabil was appointed as a director of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) by President Karzai following NDS former directors' serious injury in a terrorist attack in 2012. Mr. Nabil had a rough time in his intelligence service and was removed by President Hamid Karzai. The president said he wanted to keep the service term short, but Mr. Nabil publicly announced that President Karzai asked him to resign due to their disagreements over policies, such as torturing, misbehaving, and discrimination against detainees during the persecution process The President was also not happy because he thought Mr. Nabil was failing to stop Taliban influence in Afghan security forces as they were hiring spies that caused fatal casualties and harm to security forces. The insurgents were improving their tactics and finding new ways to damage and inflict higher casualties on the Afghan security forces and destroy the infrastructures and government facilities. They were making homemade bombs, and improvised explosive devices, buying weapons from Afghan security forces, weapon and drug trafficking, suicide attacks, and drug trafficking which provided financial support that inflicted heavy casualties on the forces. Financial support enabled the Taliban to keep the war ongoing for many years. President Ghani accused Mr. Nabil of failing to prevent the plans and attacks from their origin. This brought  Nabil's capabilities of handling the intelligence agency under serious questions, so President Ghani stepped him down. Mr. Nabil stayed engaged in the political arena of Afghanistan after his official position in the government. As he led a team to monitor the presidential elections, he and his team accused President Ashraf Ghani of appointing a loyal team in a higher-level government position which could pave the way to electoral fraud in Ashraf Ghani's favor. However, President Ghani's spokesman denied the allegation and asserted that the government had a normal operation.