When Taliban After the fighters captured Kabul two weeks earlier, the invading units made a way for two important targets: the headquarters of Directorate of National Security And this Ministry of Communications. Their purpose – stated by two Afghan officials – was to secure the files of intelligence officers and their informers and to obtain the means to track the phone numbers of Afghan citizens.
This could be disastrous for the hundreds of thousands of people who were working to counter the Taliban threat and are considered “enemies” by the insurgents.
So far, the Taliban’s political leadership has presented a liberal face, promising an apology to government security forces for laying down their arms. They have also written letters of guarantee that they will not be pursued, although they reserve the right to prosecute serious crimes.
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Yet there are increasing reports of Taliban detentions, disappearances and even executions in what some current and former government officials describe as a covert search for the militants’ enemies. The scale of the campaign is uncertain as it is being conducted in secret. And it is not clear what level of Taliban leadership has allowed the detention or execution.
“It’s pretty much underground,” said a former legislator, who was hiding elsewhere when the Taliban arrived at his home in the middle of the night. Like him, many people have gone into hiding, changed their locations and telephone numbers, and cut off communication with friends and co-workers.
“They (the Taliban) are making a very dangerous discovery,” said Patricia , Associate for Asia Director Human Rights Watch. “This is very much police state behavior. The message is very clear.” People of the Northern Province Badakhshan One of the government officials said that they have been thrown out of their homes in recent days and have not been seen since.
There has been a pattern of chasing down Afghan Special Operations Force personnel and intelligence service commandos, known as 00 units, as well as police and security chiefs across the country, he said, adding that the Ghani government At least a dozen former provincial officials from across the country, former government officials said, have been detained by the Taliban.
It is not clear where the officials are being held or whether any legal action has been taken against them. Human Rights Watch established that 44 members of the Afghan military were taken from their homes and executed in Spin Boldak in July. All 44 had received apology letters from the Taliban, gooseman said.
On Sunday, the family of an Afghan folk singer said he was shot dead by a Taliban fighter under unclear circumstances. Fawad Andarabi’s murder on Friday took place in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named. “He was innocent, a singer who was only entertaining people,” his son said.
“They shot him in the head in the field.” Andarabi played the ghichak, or bowed lute, and sang songs about Afghanistan. “There is no country in the world like my motherland, a proud nation,” he can be seen singing in a video.
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