KABUL - British intelligence agency the MI6 has as well provided money to the office of President Hamid Karzai, however it has been on a smaller scale, British newspaper The Guardian wrote Tuesday, after a report by the New York Times suggested the US intelligence agency had funded the president in large amounts.

According to The Guardian, British Secret Intelligence Service – known as the MI6 – gave secret money to the president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai for influencing into his Presidential Palace.

"Sources said the MI6 aid was on a smaller scale, and much of it was focused on trying to promote meetings between Karzai's government and Taliban intermediaries, as was embarrassingly the case in 2010 when MI6 discovered a would-be Taliban leader in talks with Karzai was an impostor from the Pakistani city of Quetta," the British newspaper wrote.

Previously, there were antithesis remarks from the Afghan Presidential Palace on the funds from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) it had received.

President Karzai has said that most of such money has been spent for the office of national security advisor as well as for cases including operations, helping out the injured, providing health services, and paying house rents within the government's frame.

National security advisor Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta told TOLOnews that the money was provided to the office of President Karzai for operational purposes, stressing that he had no information on the source and the amount of money, and on how it was spent.

Former Afghan minister of commerce and industries Amin Farhang said that "the Afghan government should respond for where this money was spent."

"When I was serving for the government, I was aware that the British intelligence agency was giving money to National Security Council," he said.

Afghan pundits remarked as well that the circumstances of spending such large amounts of money should be clarified.

"This harms Afghanistan's sovereignty," said Abbas Noyan, political expert, "The government of Afghanistan should make it clear for the people, where all this money was spent."

Meanwhile, the National Front of Afghanistan has released a statement, asking President Karzai for accountability and clarification of "illegitimate" money from the intelligence agencies.

The amount of money CIA and MI6 have provided to Karzai's office, and what the intelligence agencies gained in return are not yet clear.

Reports have suggested that the main goal for CIA and MI6 to pay such money was to keep access to President Karzai and internal circle of the Afghan government. (Tolo News)