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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-416/annex/division-A/division-27",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/416",
  "legislation_title": "Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2017/416 of 7 March 2017 implementing Decision 2011/486/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain individuals, groups, undertakings and entities in view of the situation in Afghanistan",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-416",
  "path": "annex/division/A/division/27",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(27)",
  "heading": "Sayed Esmatullah Asem Abdul Quddus (alias (a) Esmatullah Asem, (b) Asmatullah Asem, (c) Sayed Esmatullah Asem).",
  "text": "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.\nOther 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\nAdditional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:\nAt 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.\nSayed 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.\nIn late 2008, Sayed Esmatullah Asem was in charge of a Taliban staging base in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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