• The Taliban appear to have executed a former Afghan police chief who experienced fought versus the team for decades.
• Stunning footage of the execution circulated on social media and has been confirmed by Afghan officers.
• The killing comes days right after the group promised they wouldn’t acquire motion against their enemies.

A harrowing movie seems to show the Taliban executing an Afghan police chief, times immediately after the team promised not to search for revenge from previous opponents following their takeover of Afghanistan.

The graphic video, circulated on Twitter, shows Common Haji Mullah Achakzai kneeling while blindfolded and handcuffed before currently being gunned down.

General Achakzai was the main of Badghis Province in the vicinity of Herat in Afghanistan and was reportedly arrested by the Taliban just after they seized energy of the space previous week.

Afghan protection advisor Nasser Waziri, who personally understood Achakzai, instructed Newsweek that the Taliban experienced shared the online video by means of an affiliated network and that it experienced been verified by governing administration officials. 

“He was surrounded by the Taliban and had no alternative but to surrender previous evening,” Waziri informed the outlet. 

“The Taliban specific Achakzai mainly because he was a significant-rating intelligence formal.”

The normal, in his late 60s, was an skilled commander who had fought in opposition to the Taliban for a long time.

Inspite of assurances from the Taliban that they would not get action in opposition to their enemies, the group has reportedly started “doorway-to-door investigations” to try out and establish former US allies, in accordance to a UN report. 

A lot of previous authorities officers are now in hiding and worry for their life. 

Nasser Waziri advised Newsweek that he and other senior advisors have established up an on the net personal team chat that involves up to 100 Afghan officers who utilized to perform with the civil governing administration to keep track of individuals’ whereabouts and make confident they are secure from the Taliban.

He mentioned the group employs VPNs, frequently wipes their messages, and reportedly has insider information on who the Taliban will concentrate on up coming.

Though the Taliban have attempted to portray themselves as a reformed, average team, harrowing reviews of violence have emerged from Afghanistan, together with that fighters established an Afghan woman on fire for bad cooking.

The group has also seized billions of pounds worth of US-created weapons and launched a propaganda video clip exhibiting them brandishing state-of-the-artwork weapons.