The Taliban has killed over 100 individuals, who had earlier worked with the former Afghan government and the US-led military alliance in the country since August last year, a new UN report has said. The group, however, on Monday denied the shocking charges. 

Despite the general amnesty, announced last year by the Taliban, the group’s fighters continued their torture, killings, and abduction of former government and military officials in Afghanistan, Reuters said quoting the UN report.

“The UN mission has determined as credible reports that more than 100 of those individuals have been killed – more than two-thirds of them allegedly by the Taliban or their affiliates – since Aug. 15.” Reuters quoted the report as saying. 

The Taliban flatly denied the report, saying no one has been killed since the general amnesty was announced by them, and called the report "biased".. 

“The UN should make itself familiar with the realities on the ground and not rely on information that may have been provided by "biased circles," the Taliban’s Interior Ministry was quoted as saying by TOLOnews. 

Former officials, it added, might have been killed due to personnel rivalry, and they have been investigating such cases. 

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended the council approve a restructuring of the U.N. mission to deal with the situation, including the creation of a new human rights monitoring unit.

Since coming to power on 15 August last year, the Taliban has also been fighting a brutal insurgency by the local branch of ISIS. The UN report also claimed that they had received "credible reports" of extra-judicial killings of over 50 people suspected of being linked to the ISIS-K. 

Last year, several reports indicated fighters of two groups were involved in beheading each others’ members, mainly in eastern Jalalabad district, a known stronghold of the ISIS-K. 
 
(SAM)