{"id":2016,"date":"2026-10-13T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:26:11","slug":"taliban-hand-over-remains-of-former-afghan-security-officer-six-months-after-arrest-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/taliban-hand-over-remains-of-former-afghan-security-officer-six-months-after-arrest-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Hand Over Remains of Former Afghan Security Officer Six Months After Arrest in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bareen Media: <\/strong>The Taliban have handed over the remains of former Afghan security officer Allahdad Badizi and his friend to their families, around six months after their arrest in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local sources said the two men were arrested by Taliban forces, transferred to an undisclosed location, and later shot dead. Their remains were reportedly left in desert areas surrounding Lashkar Gah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Badizi\u2019s family had sought information about his whereabouts, including filing a complaint with the office of Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, but received no answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Badizi previously served in the Helmand police counterterrorism department and later commanded a unit of the National Directorate of Security. Badizi is survived by three wives and 14 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban have faced repeated allegations of arbitrary arrests, torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of former Afghan security personnel in different provinces, raising concerns about the safety of former government officials and security forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bareen Media: The Taliban have handed over the remains of former Afghan security officer Allahdad Badizi and his friend to their families, around six months after their arrest in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province. Local sources said the two men were arrested by Taliban forces, transferred to an undisclosed location, and later shot dead. Their remains &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[76,809,82,75],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-human-rights","tag-afghanistan","tag-extrajudicial-killings","tag-human-rights","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}