Taliban launch door-to-door hunt for NATO workers, kill relative of journalist

A report compiled by an intelligence group states that a high number of individuals are being targeted by the Taliban, and are at great risk.

The Taliban are conducting door-to-door searches for people who worked for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces and the previous government, a United Nations document has reported.The report compiled by the RHIPTO Norwegian Center for Global Analyses, which provides intelligence to the UN, warned that the Taliban was targeting "collaborators", BBC reported."There are a high number of individuals that are currently being targeted by the Taliban and the threat is crystal clear," Christian Nellemann, who heads the group behind the report, told the BBC."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."ALSO READ: Strangled, muscles sliced off: Nine men of Hazara minority killed by Taliban in Afghanistan Meanwhile, Taliban insurgents killed a relative of a journalist while hunting for him, Deutsche Welle said. The militants were conducting a house-to-house search for the journalist, who now works in Germany, DW said. A second relative was seriously wounded but others were able to escape, it said,According to intelligence experts, anyone on the Taliban's blacklist was in "severe danger, and that there could be mass executions".More than 18,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul airport in the last five days, a Nato official said on Friday.The development comes at a time when the Taliban has said they want peace, would not take revenge against old enemies and would respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law.“Our forces have entered Kabul to maintain peace, law and order so that there is no loot," Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said earlier this week.ALSO READ: Taliban say council will govern Afghanistan for now, Ghani breaks silence | Top 10 developments