The Deputy Spokesman of the Taliban group, Hamdullah Fitrat, has rejected reports about the detention and killing of dozens of Afghan former collaborators with British forces.
On Thursday, July 17, he announced in a statement that no one has been detained or killed for their past work, and no one is being pursued.
Fitrat claimed that based on the Taliban leader’s amnesty decree, everyone is safe and no one faces retaliatory treatment.
He also added that all documents and information related to these individuals are already available in the Taliban’s Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, and Intelligence Department, and they have no need to use documents leaked by the British.
Meanwhile, investigations by the British newspaper Daily Telegraph show that since the leaking of information about former British forces collaborators in Afghanistan in February 2022, more than 200 former Afghan soldiers and police have been identified and killed by the Taliban.
Two Taliban officials had told the newspaper that they had accessed a list of 19,000 former British collaborators and appointed a team to arrest them.
