RASC News Agency: New revelations have uncovered the covert operations of Najibullah Enqelabi, a long-serving Taliban operative deployed to the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat. His secret mission, sources confirm, is to identify, arrest, and disappear former military and security personnel from Badakhshan Province who are returning from Iran individuals once loyal to the fallen Afghanistani Republic.
A credible source from Badakhshan told RASC News that Enqelabi, originally from Jurm district, has been deeply embedded in the Taliban movement for over seven years. Earlier this year, the group’s intelligence directorate in Kabul assigned him to Islam Qala, a major border gateway, under the pretext of border management. In reality, his assignment is far more sinister: to “track and capture those Badakhshani residents who had served in the former army and police forces, fled to Iran after the Taliban takeover, and are now attempting to return home.”
According to eyewitness accounts, Enqelabi operates under strict secrecy. Several returnees from Iran told RASC News that they recognized him despite his efforts to conceal his face under a head covering that leaves only his eyes visible. “He moves among travelers silently, observing and identifying,” one source said. “Everyone knows he is not an ordinary border worker he is there to hunt his own people.”
Enqelabi reportedly told close relatives that he is officially employed at the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) in Kabul, but his actual duties remain undisclosed. Local residents describe him as a man operating in the shadows carefully blending religious rhetoric with fear to enforce the Taliban’s quiet war against former soldiers.
Since spring this year, at least thirteen former Badakhshani soldiers who had taken refuge in Iran have vanished upon crossing through the Islam Qala border in Herat or the Pul-e-Abrisham crossing in Nimroz. Sources believe these disappearances are directly linked to Enqelabi’s operations. “There is no trace of them no phone calls, no messages, no bodies,” one source stated. “The Taliban are erasing them one by one, and no one dares to ask.”
Human rights monitors have long warned that the Taliban’s so-called “general amnesty” is a cruel illusion. Despite public claims of reconciliation, the regime continues its campaign of targeted retribution silently abducting and killing former military and police personnel under the guise of border security.
Numerous deported migrants have confirmed to RASC News that Taliban agents stationed at major crossings, including Islam Qala and Pul-e-Abrisham, systematically identify, interrogate, and detain former government soldiers, civil activists, and journalists. Many are taken away in unmarked vehicles to unknown destinations. Their families, left in anguish, search endlessly for answers in a country where silence is enforced by fear.
Human rights organizations, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and Afghanistan’s permanent representative to the UN have all documented repeated instances of such arbitrary detentions and disappearances. Yet, the Taliban’s intelligence apparatus remains untouchable operating outside any framework of law, justice, or humanity.
The story of Najibullah Enqelabi epitomizes the Taliban’s deeper strategy: transforming border regions into zones of terror and control, where ideology replaces law and vengeance masquerades as order. In the barren stretches of Islam Qala, where Afghanistan meets Iran, the Taliban’s “intelligence officers” no longer guard borders they police memories. Those who once defended their nation under the Republic’s flag are being hunted, silenced, and erased from the country’s living history.
Under the Taliban’s reign, the border is no longer a place of entry it is a point of disappearance.
