Amrullah Saleh became one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban opposition forces in the Panjshir Valley
The Taliban have executed the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former Afghan vice president who became one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban opposition forces in the Panjshir Valley, his nephew said on Friday.
The news that Saleh’s brother, Rohullah Azizi, was assassinated came days after Taliban forces took control of the Panjshir provincial center, the last province to resist them.
“They executed my uncle,” Ebadullah Saleh told Reuters in a text message. “Yesterday they killed him and didn’t let us bury him. They kept saying his body should rot.”
The Urdu account of the Taliban intelligence service Alemarah said that “according to reports” Rohullah Saleh was killed during the fighting in Panjshir.
Saleh, a former head of the National Security Directorate, the Western-backed government intelligence service that collapsed last month, is at large although his exact location is still unclear.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, which brings together opposition forces loyal to local leader Ahmad Massoud, has pledged to continue opposing the Taliban even after the fall of the provincial capital of Panjshir, Bazaars.
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