The Killing of Ahamd Fahim and His Relatives, Herat (2021)
Incident- Date
- Oct 25, 2021
- Year of incident
- 2021
- Province of incident
- Herat: Chishti Sharif
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.3406961521371
Longitude: 63.7532232847663
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Chishti Sharif
- Town/Village
- Shirkhaj area of Chisht
- Types of incident
- Assault
- Execution
- Extrad-Judicial Acts
- Extrad-Judicial Killing
- Murder
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militant
- Taliban Security (Police) Command
- Regime in place
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On October 25, 2021, Ahmad Fahim and Hamid were tragically killed by Taliban forces on the Herat-Ghor highway in the Shirkhaj area of Chisht Herat district. The incident occurred a day after Ahmad Fahim, returning from a wedding party with his companions Hay Mustafa and Ghulam Farooq, encountered a Taliban ambush. Ahmad Fahim was injured in the ambush.
The following day, Hamid, the son of Ahmad Fahim’s paternal uncle and a former member of the popular uprisings, was transporting Ahmad Fahim to Herat for medical treatment. As they traveled through the Shirkhaj area of Chisht District, the Taliban intercepted their vehicle, forcibly removed them, and executed both men. In a further act of brutality, Hamid’s body was set on fire.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- No of victims involved
- 4