Taj Mir Jawad تاج مير جواد | |
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Deputy Director of Intelligence | |
Assumed office 7 September 2021 Serving with
Rahmatullah Najib | |
Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
Prime Minister | Mohammad Hassan Akhund |
Personal details | |
Political party | Taliban |
Occupation | Politician, 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]
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]