# Council Decision 2011/486/CFSP of 1 August 2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain individuals, groups, undertakings and entities in view of the situation in Afghanistan, Division (27): Sayed Esmatullah Asem Abdul Quddus ( alias (a) Esmatullah Asem, (b) Asmatullah Asem, (c) Sayed Esmatullah Asem).

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Title : Maulavi. Grounds for listing : (a) Deputy Minister of Preventing Vice and Propagating Virtue under the Taliban regime, (b) Secretary- General of the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) under the Taliban regime. Date of birth: Approximately 1967. Place of birth : Qalayi Shaikh, Chaparhar District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Nationality : Afghan. Date of UN designation : 23.2.2001 .
Other information : Member of the Taliban Supreme Council as of May 2007. Believed to be in Afghanistan/Pakistan border area. Member of the Taliban Peshawar Shura. Responsible for Afghan Taliban activity in Federally Administrated Tribal Areas, Pakistan as at 2008. A leading expert in IED and suicide attacks as of 2012. Review pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 1 Jun. 2010 . INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/1427438
Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:
At the time of his listing, Sayed Esmatullah Asem also served as the Secretary-General of the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) under the Taliban regime. As of May 2007, he became a member of the TalibanSupreme Council. He was also a member of a regional Taliban council as at 2009.
Sayed Esmatullah Asem commanded a group of Taliban fighters in Chaparhar District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. He was a Taliban commander in Konar Province, who dispatched suicide bombers to several provinces in eastern Afghanistan as at 2007. He is a leading expert in IED and suicide attacks as of 2012.
In late 2008, Sayed Esmatullah Asem was in charge of a Taliban staging base in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/486/annex/division/A/division/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-486/annex/division-A/division-27
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