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Moment Afghan police chief is ‘executed by Taliban’ as jihadis torture enemies ‘slicing off muscles’ in revenge attacks
A HORRIFYING video has emerged online that appears to show the Taliban brutally executing a police chief.
The footage, that was circulating on Twitter on Thursday, appears to show Haji Mullah Achakzai kneeling on the ground blindfolded before being gunned down.
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The commander, based in the Badghis province near Herat in Afghanistan, was reportedly arrested by the Taliban after they seized the area.
Afghan security adviser and friend of Achakzai, Nasser Waziri, told that the jihadist group shared the disturbing footage through a Taliban-related network.
Mr Waziri verified the footage with other government officials and police officers.
"He was surrounded by the Taliban and had no choice but to surrender last night," Mr Waziri said.
"The Taliban targeted Achakzai because he was a high-ranking intelligence official."
General Achakzai, in his early 60s, was a known enemy of the Taliban and fought against the group in the decades-long conflict.
The Taliban had insisted that there would be no acts of vengeance against former enemies after their takeover of the country on Saturday.
But according to Amnesty International, Taliban fights massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after they took control of the province of Ghazni in July.
According to eyewitness accounts, six men were shot while three were tortured to death in the village of Mundarakht between July 4 and 6.
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One of the men was strangled with his own scarf while another had his arm muscles sliced off during the appalling attack.
A confidential report to the UN revealed that the jihadis are intensifying their hunt for those who worked with NATO forces, the UK and the US.
The dossier leaked to the New York Times said the Taliban are "arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban".
Senior Afghan officials also told that they had been forced to go into "deep hiding" to avoid the death squads who are hunting for wanted members of former President Ashraf Ghani's administration.
Disturbing reports have been already emerging of the Taliban going door-to-door with a kill list.
'KILL LIST'
It appears their first mission is to hunt down anyone who may have helped forces of the US, UK and other nations during the occupation.
And they are reportedly going door-to-door in Kabul as they hunt for soldiers, police, government officials and journalists.
Meanwhile, there have already been reports throughout their advance of women being shot dead and girls as young as 12 being dragged from their homes to be "married".
On Wednesday, the Taliban said the decision on whether women can study and work would be left to a council of Islamic scholars.
"Our scholars will decide whether girls are allowed to go to school or not," Waheedullah Hashimi, a senior Taliban leader said.
Hashimi also said that the council of scholars, or ulema, would decide what women would be forced to wear.
'NO PLACE FOR WOMEN'
"They will decide whether they should wear hijab, burqa, or only a veil plus abaya or something, or not. That is up to them," he added.
Interpretation of Islamic law varies throughout Islamic nations but the laws applied previously under the Taliban regime were among some of the strictest implemented.
Salima Mazari, one of the few female district governors in Afghanistan, expressed fears about a Taliban takeover Saturday in an interview from Mazar-e-Sharif, before it fell.
"There will be no place for women," said Mazari, who governs a district of 36,000 people near the northern city.
"In the provinces controlled by the Taliban, no women exist there anymore, not even in the cities. They are all imprisoned in their homes."
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