Division (121) Abdul Samad Achekzai (alias Abdul Samad).

Date of birth: 1970. Place of birth: Afghanistan. Nationality: Afghan. Date of UN designation:2.3.2012.

Other information: Senior Taliban member responsible for the manufacturing of improvised explosive devices (IED). Involved in recruiting and deploying suicide bombers to conduct attacks in Afghanistan. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/4652670

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

Abdul Samad Achekzai is a senior Taliban member involved in manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and running the group's IED support network. Samad, as at mid-2010, was responsible for IED component procurement and storage, detonator construction, and IED training in support of Taliban fighters in western and southern Afghanistan.

Samad has also been involved in attacks in Afghanistan on behalf of the Taliban. As of early 2011, Samad was working with a Taliban member to assassinate an Afghan Border Police commander and had recruited a suicide bomber for the task. At that time, Samad had deployed five suicide bombers to Afghanistan to conduct attacks on International Security Assistance Force and Afghan authorities. In early 2010, Samad sent five Taliban suicide bombers to Kandahar to target Afghan authorities there.