Saeed Khosty, a former spokesperson of the Taliban’s interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, issued a death threat to Taliban opponents living outside Afghanistan.

Khosty wrote on Twitter, “Kill the fugitives”.

He added that those who talk against the Taliban will be killed, “one by one with a knife”.

He warned that the Taliban has hundreds of volunteers to target such opponents of the group outside Afghanistan.

According to Khosty, those who oppose the Taliban in Europe and the United States “seek unity and leadership”.

The former spokesperson of Haqqani has called the opponents of the Taliban “wild animals”.

He stressed that foreign intelligence agencies target their opponents outside their countries and questioned the Taliban as to “why couldn’t they do this?”

In the past 18 months, there have been credible reports by national and international organisations and rights groups that the Taliban have suppressed their critics and opponents inside Afghanistan with various brutal tactics, including imprisonment and torture.

The Taliban have imposed severe restrictions on the media and have widely surveyed and trolled Afghan citizens on social media.