Last Updated: January 19, 2026
SAYED ESMATULLAH ASEM ABDUL QUDDUS
Aliases
Asmatullah Asem; Esmatullah Asem; Sayed Esmatullah Asem
Position
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
DoB
1967
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 ...
Date of listing
2001-02-23
Program information
Authority
UK
Program
The Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
Regime
UN, UK country specific
Target State
Afghanistan
Measures
Asset freeze and making available provisions, Trade sanctions, Travel bans
Sanctions Portfolio
• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...
Official Information
The Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 came fully into force on 31 December 2020. They put in place sanctions measures to ensure the UK continues to meet its obligations under the United Nations sanctions regime relating to Afghanistan. UN sanctions were initially imposed in 1999, in response to the actions of the Taliban, including...
Additional Details
Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.
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