Taliban Confirm Grave Desecration of Former Security Commander in Uruzgan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Unidentified armed individuals have exhumed the remains of a former Afghan security commander in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, 14 February, local sources and Taliban authorities confirmed.

Family members said that the grave of Sadiqullah, a former police commander of Charchino district in Uruzgan province, was desecrated on Saturday night in the provincial capital, Tarinkot. According to his brother, Nazar Mohammad, the attackers destroyed the grave and removed the skull from the body.