Attempts to find General Abdulwadud, known as Wadudkhan Commando, were unsuccessful. The Taliban hide him.
HINDUKUSH, April 3 - Sangar, Hasib Sangari. He has been with Ahmad Shah Massoud since the jihad against the Soviets and was a prominent member of his special forces known as commandos.
One of his relatives told the Sangar website that on September 5, the same day that Fahim Dashti and General Wadud Khan Zareh were captured by the Taliban, Wadudkhan Commando also disappeared and was never seen again.
“Initially, they said that he was captured by the Taliban. We searched for him in all prisons in Afghanistan for eight months, but we didn't find him anywhere. Someone called us and said they could find him and release him for a large ransom. But when we asked for proof, he disappeared. Now there is another special Taliban prison where we hope to find him there,” he said.
Meanwhile, another Sangar interlocutor says that on the day the Taliban entered Panjshir, General Wadudkhan Commando was wounded and hiding somewhere, but someone informed the Taliban of his whereabouts and he was arrested.
“It is not clear what they did to him, who was a famous, burly, and proud man, and bowed his head to no one. At the height of the war, they could kill him, like Dashti and Vadudkhan, or take him prisoner and take him to Kabul. Eight months have passed, but there is no information,” he said.
Fahim Dashti, press secretary, and General Wadudkhan Zareh, who was in charge of finances National Resistance Front of Afghanistan were arrested by the Taliban in Panjshir last September 5 and killed three days later. Both of them were the relatives of the Front leader Ahmad Massoud.
In the meantime, reports surfaced on social media that General Vadudkhan Commando was captured in civilian clothes and unarmed from the village of Bazarak in Panjshir and transported by the Taliban to an unknown destination during the occupation of the valley.
According to these reports, he has been in a Taliban prison for eight months now, and he is not granted even the most basic right of a prisoner - access to his family.
General Vadudkhan Commando is about 55 years old and is a resident of the village of Rahmankhel, Bazarak district. He was still very young when he joined the Panjshir Mujahideen under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the national hero of Afghanistan, and rose to the position of second-in-command of the special forces, known as commandos. In the ranks of the Mujahideen, there were many people named Vadud, hence he was called after the place of his service in the commando.
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