Division (53) Gul Agha Ishakzai ( alias (a) Mullah Gul Agha, (b) Mullah Gul Agha Akhund (c) Hidayatullah, (d) Haji Hidayatullah, (e) Hayadatullah).F1

Address : Pakistan. Date of birth: Approximately 1972. Place of birth: Band-e-Temur, Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Date of UN designation: 20.7.2010 .

Other information: Member of a Taliban Council that coordinates the collection of zakat (Islamic tax) from Baluchistan Province, Pakistan. Head of Taliban Financial Commission as at mid-2013. Associated with Mullah Mohammed Omar. Served as Omar's principal finance officer and one of his closest advisors. Belongs to Ishaqzai tribe. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/1621285

Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:

Gul Agha Ishakzai is the head of the Taliban's financial commission and is part of a recently created Taliban council that coordinates the collection of zakat (Islamic tax) from Baluchistan Province, Pakistan. He has also collected money for suicide attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and has been involved in the disbursement of funds to Taliban fighters and their families.

A childhood friend of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, Gul Agha Ishakzai has served as Omar's principal finance officer and one of his closest advisors. At one time, no one was allowed to meet Mullah Omar unless approved by him. He lived in the presidential palace with Omar during the Taliban regime.

In December 2005, Gul Agha Ishakzai facilitated the movement of people and goods to Taliban training camps; in late 2006 he travelled abroad to obtain weapon parts.