Qari Ahmadullah ( ps, قاری احمدالله) (born 1975) was an
Afghan
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politician and the
Taliban
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's first interior minister in 1996.
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He was responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the
United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan
The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...
opposition. Ahmadullah also commanded troops fighting on frontlines in the north of the country against the Northern Alliance.
Background
According to the Official Journal of the European Union and the testimony of
Abdul Haq Wasiq
Abdul Haq Wasiq ( ; born 1971) is the current Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since September 7, 2021. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the former Taliban government (1996–2001). He was hel ...
, before his
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were esta ...
, Ahmadullah was the Minister of Security and also
Minister of Intelligence and Governor of
Takhar Province
Takhar (Dari , Farsi/Pashto: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeast of the country next to Tajikistan. It is surrounded by Badakhshan in the east, Panjshir in the south, and Baghlan and Kunduz in the we ...
. Abdul Haq described Ahmadullah as an uneducated man.
[ Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from ]Abdul Haq Wasiq
Abdul Haq Wasiq ( ; born 1971) is the current Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since September 7, 2021. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the former Taliban government (1996–2001). He was hel ...
's ''Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were esta ...
'' – pp. 13–24
He was supposedly killed in the opening days of 2002 in the American airstrike against
Mullah Taha's house in
Zadran (though the Pentagon was unable to confirm Ahmadullah's death). 12 years after the incident, an investigation by Harper's Weekly alleged Ahmadullah is alive.
See also
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List of people who disappeared
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References
1975 births
2000s missing person cases
Governors of Takhar Province
Missing people
Missing person cases in Afghanistan
Taliban government ministers of Afghanistan
Pashtun people
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