VANCOUVER, CANADA – Local sources in Takhar report that Taliban intelligence in the province has detained two former personnel of the previous government’s national directorate of security.
Sources speaking to KabulNow identified the two individuals as Mosa Ahmadi and Monir Ahmad, stating that they were apprehended on Friday, May 10, in Taluqan, the capital city of Takhar.
Sources indicate that these two individuals had been working under the Taliban’s intelligence leadership in Takhar even after the republic’s collapse but were recently relieved of their duties and were leading civilian lives as shopkeepers.
The Taliban had arrested two other intelligence personnel of the former government on May 6.
Sources speaking to KabulNow identified the detainees as Mohammad Osman, the former security chief of Bangi district, and Samiullah Sadat, a former employee of the National Security Directorate (NDS) in Takhar.
According to sources, these two individuals were apprehended last week from the village of Chashma Shir in central Taluqan by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI).
On December 6, 2023, local sources in Takhar reported that Taliban intelligence in the Darqad district of the province had detained three family members of a member of the former security forces named Shahzad Khan. These individuals were arrested from Musa Zai village of Darqad district in Takhar. The detained individuals include the brother, nephew, and a young daughter of the former military personnel.
Shahzad Khan was an employee of the NDS, the predecessor to the Taliban’s GDI in the previous government and left for Turkey after the republic’s collapse, where he currently resides.
Findings by Etilaatroz Daily, KabulNow’s Farsi affiliate revealed that in less than nine months, Taliban intelligence in Takhar had detained and imprisoned over 76 individuals, including children.
The report found that the Taliban had detained non-combatants relatives of former military personnel on charges of collaboration with the ‘National Resistance Front of Afghanistan’, the ‘Afghan Liberation Front’, and the group known as the Islamic State of Khorasan Province ‘ISKP’.
Etilaatroz’s findings indicate that some of these individuals were being held in two Taliban-controlled prisons at the Taliban’s intelligence office located at the airport square on the outskirts of Taluqan, without access to their basic rights or legal representation.
The families of these detainees told Etilaatroz that in most cases, their relatives have been subjected to torture by the Taliban without any criminal charges, and some have been publicly executed without trial.
Despite the Taliban’s declaration of general amnesty following their return to rule, they have detained former military personnel and others associated with the former government. In several cases, these individuals have been accused of murder and many of them have died in Taliban prisons from torture.
