Taliban intelligence on Saturday raided the home of the Taliban’s health minister, detaining several senior officials from the ministry, many of them relatives of the minister, on corruption charges, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.
The raid, carried out Saturday by a Taliban intelligence unit known as Directorate 08, targeted the residence of Noor Jalal Jalali, the Taliban’s health minister. According to the sources, the unit was specifically seeking to detain individuals linked to the minister who were accused of financial and administrative corruption.
