Abdul Rauf Zakir

N/A

Kabul Province, Afghanistan

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0404&from=EN

Activity-based reason

Terrorist

Abdul Rauf Zakir is the chief of suicide operations for the Haqqani Network and the commander in charge of all operations in Kabul, Takhar, Kunduz and Baghlan provinces, Afghanistan. Zakir approached the Haqqani Network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani in approximately 2008, requesting financial assistance in exchange for expanding Haqqani Network influence and operations into northern Afghanistan, and has become a trusted associate and confidant of Sirajuddin. As the chief of suicide operations, Zakir is responsible for training recruits. Under his programme, recruits are trained in basic small arms, heavy weapons, and basic improvised explosive device (IED) construction. Zakir has been involved in many of the Haqqani Network's high-profile suicide attacks and is partially responsible for making some of the final determinations on whether or not to proceed with large-scale attacks planned by local, district-level commanders. Attacks using personnel selected from Zakir's training programme include the June 2011 attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which killed 11 civilians and two Afghan policemen, and the September 2011 attack on the United States Embassy in Kabul, which killed 16 Afghans, including at least six children.

EU

2017/404 (OJ L63)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32017R0404

2017-03-09

EU

Restrictive measures imposed with respect to the Taliban

UN

Afghanistan

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision 2011/486/CFSP.

The measures were initially imposed on 15 October 1999. On 17 June 2011, the United Nations' Security Council adopted resolutions 1988 (2011) and 1989 (2011) and decided that the list of individuals and entities subject to restrictive measures originally imposed by resolution 1267 (1999) would be split in two. The original resolution 1267 (1999) concerns Afganistan and the Taliban. Now the resolution is concerning ISIL (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities. The measures imposed with respect to the Taliban are described under this restrictive measures regime. The measures imposed on ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida are described under the thematic restrictive measures section. Derogations to the restrictive measures are possible as well as exemptions for humanitarian purposes.