Taliban Appoints New Police Chief for Panjshir Province

The Taliban’s Ministry of Interior appointed a new police chief for Panjshir Province. Qari Ahmadullah Badr was introduced as the Taliban’s police chief in Panjshir on Tuesday.

The Taliban has changed the police chief of Panjshir three times in the last two years.

The new police chief of the group in Panjshir was previously the police chief of Samangan province.

Panjshir is the main hub of the National Resistance Front’s (NRF) activities against the Taliban. NRF has clashed with the Taliban many times in this province in the past two years.

After the escalation of the security situation in Panjshir, the Taliban appointed Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir as the military commander in Panjshir and Andrab region.

According to the Taliban's Ministry of Interior, during the introduction ceremony of the new police chief of Panjshir, the group’s governor for the province, Mohammad Agha Hakim, said that the outsiders’ perceptions of Panjshir are not true.

The governor of the Taliban has claimed that the people in this province "obey" all the orders of the leader of the group.

According to reports, the Taliban in Panjshir has intensified detaining civilians on the charge of cooperation with the NRF and have been mistreating the residents of the province. It has been reported that only in the past few months, the Taliban has arrested and tortured dozens of residents of Panjshir province.

Previously, Dad Mohammad Batar and Mullah Mohammad Tayeb Haqqani worked as Taliban police chiefs of Panjshir province.