Afghan Deputy Director of Intelligence since 2021
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
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]
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