Taliban making ‘door-to-door visits’ in Afghanistan: UN document

Confidential UN document says group conducting door-to-door visits of people who worked with US and NATO forces.

The Taliban is going house-to-house searching for opponents and their families, according to a United Nations threat assessment report, deepening fears that Afghanistan‘s new rulers are planning revenge. After routing government forces and taking over Kabul on Sunday to end 20 years of war, the group had repeatedly promised a complete amnesty as part of a well-crafted PR blitz. Women have also been assured their rights will be respected, and that the Taliban will be “positively different” from their brutal 1996-2001 rule.