Murtaza Solangi, spokesperson for Pakistan’s president, again criticised the Taliban after reports that the body of a former Afghan serviceman was exhumed from his grave in Uruzgan province.
Solangi reposted a report on X alleging that Taliban members in Uruzgan had dug up the body of a former soldier, beheaded it and desecrated the grave.
“This [is] why I call them brainless beasts,” he wrote.
The Taliban police command in Uruzgan confirmed that on Saturday night the body of Sediqullah, a former member of the previous Afghan government’s security forces, was exhumed from the Martyrs’ Cemetery in Tarinkot.
The former serviceman’s family told Afghanistan International that Taliban forces destroyed his grave in the centre of Uruzgan province on Saturday night and removed his body from the burial site.
Images and videos obtained by Afghanistan International show the grave completely destroyed, with the burial chamber exposed. The footage indicates that the body was removed from the grave.
Solangi previously used similar language to describe the Taliban in response to an Afghanistan International report documenting the killing of 6,660 Afghans over nearly four years under Taliban rule.
