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New Moral Scandal Within the Taliban; Senior Official Arrested in Kabul on Adultery Charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n Local sources report a new scandal within the ranks of the Taliban, in which a senior official of the group has been arrested in Kabul on charges of an extramarital relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n This incident once again highlights the deep gap between the Taliban\u2019s strict moral claims and the actual behavior of its officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sources confirmed on Friday, February 6, 2026, that the detained individual is Mawlawi Badruddin Omari, the Taliban\u2019s head of military personnel control in Kabul.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the sources, he is originally from Kandahar province and was arrested along with a woman in a house outside Kabul after being pursued by Taliban intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n The arrest reportedly followed growing internal suspicions within the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n Based on source information, the Taliban official was involved with a 27-year-old woman named Bahara Haji-Zada, and images and videos found on her mobile phone confirm the existence of the relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Taliban have so far remained silent on the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n Similar cases have been reported in the past, but in many instances Taliban officials were released after arrest without any publicly announced punishment.<\/strong><\/p>\n This has intensified criticism over double standards, internal immunity, and the credibility of the Taliban\u2019s moral claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Moral Scandal Within the Taliban; Senior Official Arrested in Kabul on Adultery Charges. Local sources report a new scandal within the ranks of the Taliban, in which a senior official of the group has been arrested in Kabul on charges of an extramarital relationship. This incident once again highlights the deep gap between the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437","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=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}