The Taliban have ramped up efforts to hunt people who worked with US and NATO forces.
The latest development was revealed by the United Nations which was reported in a confidential paper by the Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses (which provides the UN with intelligence information).
“The Taliban are arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban,” the document, said.
It said that those at particular risk were people with positions in the military, police and investigative units.
“The Taliban have been conducting advance mapping of individuals prior to the take-over of all major cities,” it said.
It added that the militants were screening for individuals while permitting some evacuation of foreign personnel from Kabul airport but the situation there remained “chaotic”.
According to the report, the Taliban are recruiting new informer networks to collaborate with the new regime.
