Abdul Rasheed, the Taliban’s mayor of Kabul, has been detained in Kandahar for nearly 20 days after traveling there to address the dismissal of dozens of municipal officials accused of corruption, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The sources said that Rasheed traveled to Kandahar after senior Taliban removed a large number of Kabul Municipality officials as part of an apparent anti-corruption investigation. He was subsequently detained and has not returned to his post, the sources said.
