Abdur Razzaq (Taliban Interior Minister)

Abdur Razzaq (Taliban Interior Minister)

Mullah Abdur Razzaq, an ethnic Pashtun, is member of the Taliban leadership, and a former Afghan Interior Minister.cite news
url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0508/p01s02-wosc.html
date=May 8, 2003
title=Taliban appears to be regrouped and well-funded: A new hierarchy of leaders has emerged across parts of Afghanistan.
author=Scott Baldauf, Owais Tohid
publisher=Christian Science Monitor
accessdate=2007-02-27
]

Razzaq traveled to Pakistan in mid-May 2000 to discussthe extradition ofcriminals, terrorism, drug trafficking and the Afghanistan Transit TradeAgreement.cite web
url=http://www.unhcr.org/publ/RSDCOI/3af8027f13.pdf
title=Background paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Afghanistan
publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
date=April 2001
accessdate=February 27
accessyear=2007
] Pakistan demanded the closure of 18 Afghan training camps, where they believed Pakistani militants were receiving training.

The British paper "The Scotsman" reported that Razzaq was a founding member of the Taliban; that he headed the Taliban's customs department; and was later Interior Minister.cite news
url=http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=538552003
title=Russia funding resurgent Taliban
author=Ian Mather
date=May 11 2003
publisher=The Scotsman
accessdate=2007-02-27
] The May 11 2003 article said that Razzaq was the number two in a then new Taliban military command structure.

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