New Delhi: The Taliban have been conducting door-to-door searches to track down their opponents, especially ones who have helped US and NATO forces in the past, news agency AFP reported while citing a confidential document by the UN’s threat assessment consultants. The report, written by the Norwegian Center for Global Analyses, said militants were also screening people on the way to Kabul airport.
“They are targeting the families of those who refuse to give themselves up, and prosecuting and punishing their families ‘according to Sharia law’,” Christian Nellemann, the group’s executive director, told AFP. This comes on a day when US President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak on the Afghanistan evacuation efforts.
Meanwhile, since the Taliban took over Kabul on Sunday, as many as 12 people have been killed in and around the airport, Reuters quoted Taliban and NATO officials as saying. Also, a NATO official stated that more than 18,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul airport since Sunday.