Mullah Mullah () is an honorific title for Islam, Muslim clergy and mosque Imam, leaders. The term is widely used in Iran and Afghanistan and is also used for a person who has higher education in Islamic theology and Sharia, sharia law. The title h ...

Taj Mir Jawad ( ), also spelt Tajmir Jawad, is the Deputy Director of Intelligence of the

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

since 7 September 2021, alongside Rahmatullah Najib. He is a senior leader of the

Haqqani network The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanis ...

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 On 28 June 2011, a group of nine gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Inter-Continental Hotel, Kabul. The attack and an ensuing five-hour siege left at least 21 people dead, including all nine attackers. Responsibility was claimed by the Ta ...

. At this time, he was believed by Afghan and US officials to be living freely in

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

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. In 2018, Afghan Head of the

National Directorate of Security The National Directorate of Security (NDS; ; ) was the national intelligence agency, intelligence and security agency, security service of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul, and it had field offices and ...

Rahmatullah Nabil Rahmatullah Nabil (born 30 June 1968) is an Afghan politician. He served as Head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) from 2010 to 2012. On September 1, 2013, he was reappointed as acting Director due to the health problems suffered by A ...

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 Abdul Raziq Achakzai, also known as General Raziq, (; Persian/; 1979 – October 18, 2018) was the chief of police for Kandahar Province. Many Afghans regarded him as a national hero while others viewed him simply as a warlord. In late 2001, Ach ...

, who had been assassinated that year. On 7 September 2021, Jawad was made deputy director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, alongside Rahmatullah Najib, under Director of Intelligence

Abdul Haq Wasiq Abdul Haq Wasiq ( ; born 1971) is the General Directorate of Intelligence, Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since September 7, 2021. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the former Taliban governm ...

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