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Taj Mir Jawad

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Taj Mir Jawad
تاج مير جواد
Deputy Director of Intelligence
Assumed office
7 September 2021
Serving with Rahmatullah Najib
Supreme LeaderHibatullah Akhundzada
Prime MinisterMohammad Hassan Akhund
Personal details
Political party Taliban
OccupationPolitician, Taliban member

Mullah Taj Mir Jawad[1] (Pashto: تاج مير جواد [tɑd͡ʒ ˈmir d͡ʒaˈwɑd]), also spelt Tajmir Jawad,[2][3] is the Deputy Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021,[3] alongside Rahmatullah Najib.[4] He is a senior leader of the Haqqani network.[2][3]

Career

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From 2008, Jawad was believed to be the operational head of several suicide attacks in Kabul as part of the "Kabul Attack Network", most notably the 2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack.[3][5] At this time, he was believed by Afghan and US officials to be living freely in Peshawar, Pakistan.[3]

In 2018, Afghan Head of the National Directorate of Security Rahmatullah Nabil blamed Jawad for supervising the Al-Hamza Martyrdom Brigade, a training centre for suicide bombers that he said trained the assassin of police chief Abdul Raziq Achakzai, who had been assassinated that year.[1]

On 7 September 2021, Jawad was made deputy director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, alongside Rahmatullah Najib,[4] under Director of Intelligence Abdul Haq Wasiq.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Taliban's new deputy intel chief ran suicide attack network". Hindustan Times. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "The Secret War - Transcript". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e "All the Taliban's men: A who's who of the Islamic Emirate's new leadership". Firstpost. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  4. ^ a b "In Mohammad Akhund-led Taliban govt, several key faces from Haqqani Network". Hindustan Times. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  5. ^ "ISAF airstrike kills senior Haqqani Network commander involved in Kabul hotel attack | FDD's Long War Journal". www.longwarjournal.org. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2021.