{"id":12336,"date":"2025-06-27T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2025-06-27T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:46:18","slug":"haqqani-some-taliban-members-secretly-killed-former-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/haqqani-some-taliban-members-secretly-killed-former-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Haqqani: Some Taliban members secretly killed former soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12333\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/haqani-qtl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban\u2019s interior minister, has confirmed that a number of members of the group have secretly and arbitrarily targeted and killed officials and employees of the former government in revenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Haqqani made these remarks during a meeting with local Taliban officials and families of slain members of the group in Kapisa province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>While acknowledging the revengeful actions of some Taliban forces, he said: \u201cThose who have committed such acts must be held accountable before God.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This is the first time that a senior Taliban official has publicly admitted to the secret killing of former soldiers by members of the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Previously, numerous reports of the detention, torture and murder of soldiers and employees of the former government by the Taliban after the group took control of the country had been published.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>However, the Taliban have always denied or remained silent about the reports of the killing of former soldiers, citing their leader&#8217;s general amnesty decree.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban\u2019s interior minister, has confirmed that a number of members of the group have secretly and arbitrarily targeted and killed officials and employees of the former government in revenge. Haqqani made these remarks during a meeting with local Taliban officials and families of slain members of the group in Kapisa province. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12337,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336\/revisions\/12337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}