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Credibility Assessment
Cites anonymous local sources providing specific details on the arrest of named Taliban official Shabir Ahmad in Fering district, Baghlan, on 28 Aqbar, including transfer location and related incidents in Farah and Badakhshan. Anonymity lacks explanation, and no right of reply from Taliban or corroboration from multiple sources.
Local sources report that Shabir Ahmad, the Taliban district governor in Fering district of Baghlan province, has been arrested by the intelligence forces of this group. The sources informed the 8am newspaper on Wednesday, 28 Aqbar, that Shabir Ahmad was detained two days prior from his home in Fering district by Taliban intelligence forces.
According to the sources, he was transferred today along with his uncle's son from Khwost district to the intelligence directorate of the group in Baghlan.
The Taliban have previously become involved in ethnic and factional disputes among themselves on multiple occasions. In the most recent case, Muthni Baloch, the head of the Taliban's statistics department in Farah province, was targeted in an attack by gunmen today.
The Taliban had also arrested one of their affiliates in Abjam village of Rag district in Badakhshan province a short time ago due to escalating internal disputes in that province.
