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Taliban in search for people who worked for NATO forces or previous Afghan government
According to the BBC, a UN document has warned that the Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government.
The BBC reported the document said, the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threaten their family members.
It should be noted the hardline Islamist group has tried to reassure Afghans since seizing power in a lightning offensive, promising there would be "no revenge".
But there are growing fears of a gap between what they say and what they do.
The warning the group were targeting "collaborators" came in a confidential document by the RHIPTO Norwegian Center for Global Analyses, which provides intelligence to the UN.
Christian Nellemann, who heads the group behind the report, told the BBC: "There are a high number of individuals that are currently being targeted by the Taliban and the threat is crystal clear."
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"It is in writing that, unless they give themselves in, the Taliban will arrest and prosecute, interrogate and punish family members on behalf of those individuals."
He warned that anyone on the Taliban's blacklist was in severe danger, and that there could be mass executions.
Source: BBC
