Taliban militants from the radical Islamist movement in Afghanistan have killed Rohull Saleh, brother of Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh, according to Reuters, citing the deceased’s family.
“They sentenced my uncle to death,” Ebadullah Saleh, the deceased’s nephew, told Reuters on Friday. “They killed him yesterday and don’t let us bury him. They said his body should be blown away.”
Taliban information service Alemarah reports that “according to reports” Rohullah Saleh was killed during the fighting in Punjab.
Following the escape of Afghanistan’s former President Ashraf Gani, Amrullah Saleh announced that he had become interim president in accordance with the constitution.
According to India Today, Rohullah Saleh was killed in Punjab in the Taliban.
The Hindustan Times, on the other hand, reports that Rohullah Saleh was killed when he tried to leave Kabul for Kabul.
The Taliban have twice said they have defeated the resistance in Punjab.
The National Resistance Front, led by Ahmuda Masuda, rejects these allegations and insists that the Taliban have still failed to subjugate the entire province.
Taliban opponents, as well as several Western media outlets, have reported that the Taliban have backed Operation Punjab in Pakistan in recent weeks, including with drones.
Following the withdrawal of the US and other foreign military contingents from Afghanistan, the Taliban launched a general offensive operation in August and briefly seized almost the entire territory of the country, but on August 15, the capital, Kabul, fell into their hands.
The only province in Afghanistan that had not come under Taliban control until recently was Punjab, but the Taliban leadership announced on Monday that the Islamist movement had also taken over the province.
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