A well-placed Afghani source revealed that the Taliban has formed a special cleansing committee set up to purge the ranks of movement of corrupt and unrespectable cadres.
The source, in an interview with "Novosti", a Russian news agency, correspondent, said that the militants of the movement expelled from their ranks about 200 people who abused their functional powers.
Last October, a spokesman for the Taliban government's Interior Ministry, Kari Saeed Horsti, stated that the Afghan interim government had set up a committee to purge its ranks of the corrupt and unworthy.
The new committee includes elements from the Ministries of Defense and Interior and the National Directorate of Security.
In some cases, commission members may use force and violent methods to expel corrupt persons they have discovered from government institutions.
Horsty noted, that this is about people who got their positions with the help of relatives, criminals, people with questionable pasts, or officials who stir up the hatred of the local population.
On the other hand, bodies of four Afghan women were found in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif last Saturday, a spokesman for the "Taliban" government told Agence France Presse (AFP) following reports of the killing of female activists.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Qari Syed Khosti, said in a video statement that two suspects were arrested after the four bodies were found in a house in the fifth police district.
"The two detainees admitted in a preliminary investigation that they invited the women to the house," the spokesman said.
He added that further investigations are being conducted and the case has been referred to the court.
Khosti did not reveal the identity of the victims, but a source in Mazar-i-Sharif told AFP that among the dead was a women's rights activist whose family refused to speak to the media.
A report broadcast by the Persian-language BBC, quoting civil society sources, stated that the four women were friends who wanted to leave the country through Mazar-i-Sharif airport.
Since the Taliban's return to power in August, many human rights activists have fled the country.
But the movement's leaders insisted that their fighters were not authorized to kill activists and vowed to punish those who did it.
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