Sunday, 1 November 2026
Standing Office 81 (SOVNPA 81) emblem Viet Nam NVietnam National Presiding Agency
on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Standing Office 81

SAYED ESMATULLAH ASEM ABDUL QUDDUS

سید عصمت الله عاصم عبد القدوس

UN reference
TAi.080
Sanctions regime
Taliban (1988 Committee)
Type
Individual
Designation
Deputy Minister of Preventing Vice and Propagating Virtue under the Taliban regime
Secretary General of the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) under the Taliban regime
Nationality
Afghanistan
Date of birth
1967 (approximately)
Place of birth
Qalayi Shaikh, Chaparhar District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Aliases
Asmatullah Asem; Esmatullah Asem; Sayed Esmatullah Asem
Listed on
23 February 2001
Updated by the UN
13 August 2012

Other information (UN original text)

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 INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice:https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Individuals

If your counterparty matches this record: suspend the transaction, freeze the related funds and assets without delay and report to the competent authorities.