Nato stops sending prisoners to Afghan jails after reports of
torture  Afghan jail Two chained prisoners in an Afghan jail.
Nato forces have stopped transfers to some prisons. Photograph:
Emilio Morenatti/AP      "The report would conclude that torture
was continuing to take place at NDS [National Directorate of
Security] and ANP [Afghan national police] facilities across
Afghanistan, whilst recognising that there had been a decline in
the prevalence of abuse at some facilities," said the email,
which detailed a meeting between UK embassy diplomats and UN
officials working on the report.  It highlighted a counter-
terrorism jail run by the intelligence services in Kabul as one
major problem, "with a large number of serious recent
allegations surfacing", and named a man who subsequently became
head of the Afghan spy service, Asadullah Khaled, as a
"principle [sic] culprit" for the torture of Taliban prisoners.
Nato has also raised torture concerns about a controversial US-
backed programme to bolster securit