Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have killed Hamidullah Bahloul, a former employee of a multinational organisation, after he had returned to Kabul.
According to sources, Bahloul had been relocated to Germany, but when the Taliban arrested his family members, he returned to Afghanistan.
According to the sources, Bahloul was killed on June 17 at his home in Kabul.
Sources said that from 2010 until the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Bahloul had worked for a German organisation, GIZ, as an engineer for reconstruction projects in the provinces of Kunduz, Balkh, Jawzjan, Baghlan, and Samangan provinces.
According to the sources, about six months after the return of the Taliban, Bahloul fled Afghanistan to Pakistan with his family, and from there he had been relocated through the evacuation programme of the German government.
Relatives of the Afghan citizen said that the Taliban later arrested Bahloul's son and his two brothers who were residents of Kabul. According to the sources, after the arrest of these people, Hamidullah Bahloul had been forced to return to Kabul. The sources said that the Taliban had asked him to return to Kabul to talk to the Taliban.
According to Bahloul's relatives, in the past few days, the Taliban attacked his house in District 5 of Kabul city and shot the man dead.
The sources said that currently, Bahloul's two brothers are also imprisoned in Paktia province, and there is no information about his son who had also been detained by the group. The Taliban claimed to have released Bahloul's son, but he "hasn't come home" in about eight months, the sources said.
The Taliban authorities and the GIZ have not responded to the reports of the killing of Bahloul.
