UN Security Council Sanctions Committee Updates Taliban List, Adds One Official and Removes 39
The UN Security Council's Sanctions Committee published an updated list on 19 Hoot featuring 22 senior Taliban officials subject to sanctions, along with their biographies.
The list added Azizurrahman Abdulahad, the third secretary of the Taliban embassy in the United Arab Emirates, who was not on the previous list. The prior list, published last month of Dalu, contained 61 Taliban officials. At least 39 senior officials and Taliban members have been removed from the new list.
Prominent figures removed include Shahabuddin Delawar, head of the Taliban Red Crescent Society; Abbas Stanikzai, deputy minister of foreign affairs for political affairs; Hamdullah Nomani, acting minister of urban development and housing; Hamidullah Akhund Shir Mohammad, first deputy minister of defense; and Nurullah Nuri, acting minister of borders and tribal affairs.
Other removals include Jan Mohammad Madani Ekram, advisor to Hibatullah on financial affairs; Yahya Haqqani, a senior member of the Haqqani network; Shamspur Rahman, senior advisor to Sirajuddin Haqqani; and Mohammad Tahir Anwari, Haqqani network advisor. The list also removed deputies of ministries including borders and tribal affairs, labor and social affairs, martyrs and disabled, enjoining good, finance, intelligence, culture, hajj and religious endowments, as well as Taliban governors in Nangarhar and Logar.
Several high-level Taliban officials remain on the list, including Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund; Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Abdul Ghani Baradar; Deputy Prime Minister for Administration Abdul Salam Hanafi; Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi; Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani; Minister of Refugees and Repatriates Abdul Kabir; and others such as Abdul Latif Mansour, Mohammad Fazl Mazlum, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, Din Mohammad Hanif, Qudratullah Jamal, Nuruddin Talib, Mohammad Isa Akhund, Najibullah Haqqani, Nur Mohammad Saqib, Abdul Haq Waseeq and Khairullah Khairkhwah.
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