Kidnapping and Murder of Merajuddin Waqar in Ghazni (2021)
Incident- Date
- Dec 15, 2021
- Dates of incident
- Oct 1, 2021 ~ Dec 13, 2021
- Year of incident
- 2021
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Dih Yak
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.5926115515727
Longitude: 68.7198470554483
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Dih Yak
- Town/Village
- Dih Yak, Ghazni Province
- Types of incident
- Abduction
- Arrest
- Assassination
- Execution
- Extrad-Judicial Acts
- Extrad-Judicial Killing
- Hostage taking
- Murder
- Targeted Killing
- Torture
- Conflict parties
- Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Local Militia
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Taliban Security (Police) Command
- Regime in place
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On December 16, 2021, Merajuddin Waqar, the president of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi Private University in Ghazni Province, was killed by kidnappers. His body was discovered on December 15, 2021, in the Deh-Ik district of Ghazni province. Waqar had been kidnapped by armed men from Ghazni city in October. Since his abduction, no contact had been made with his family regarding his whereabouts.
The Taliban have stated that they are investigating Waqar’s abduction and murder, but no further details have been provided.
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