Division (27) Sayed Esmatullah Asem Abdul Quddus ( alias (a) Esmatullah Asem, (b) Asmatullah Asem, (c) Sayed Esmatullah Asem).F1

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.