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it, any crops of value. He travelled to Kandahar in the spring of 2021 and he stayed there for a time. He moved to Kabul approximately three months before he gave evidence.

969 Mangul Rahmi said that he knew Ali Jan. He said that Ali Jan was from his region. Ali Jan lived in a village called Baag. He said that Ali Jan had lived in Baag all his life and that Ali Jan was married and had children. Mangul Rahmi knows Ali Jan's brothers and his father. Ali Jan kept animals and he would collect wood to sell. Mangul Rahmi said that he was not a relative of Ali Jan, but "there is something we call like a distant cousin".

970 Ali Jan was killed at the time of the corn crop. Mangul Rahmi said that Ali Jan was not connected to the Taliban.

971 Mangul Rahmi knew the names of Mohammed Hanifa's brothers, including Mohammad Shah.

972 Mangul Rahmi identified the location of his fields opposite his compound. He knew Haji Muhammad Gul who is from Darwan. He was able to identify the location of Haji Muhammad Gul's compound and the location of Haji Wali Jan's mosque.

973 Shahzada Fatih said that his age "could be 60, 70 years. 70 years". He was born in Darwan and he has lived in Darwan all his life except for about a year before he gave evidence. He went to Kandahar and then from Kandahar to Kabul. At Darwan, he worked the land. He had two wives, but one had passed away. He has 11 sons and Mohammed Hanifa is his oldest son. He has five daughters. He said that his house in Darwan was in the middle of Darwan. His neighbours are Mangul Rahmi and Amir Jan Aka.

974 Shahzada Fatih knew Ali Jan who was his brother-in-law. Ali Jan was the brother of the wife to whom he was first engaged. Ali Jan was married and he had one son and two daughters. His father's name was Jamal Sha Alka. Ali Jan lived in the mountains in a place called Bagh. Ali Jan collected wood and kept goats and animals. He would bring what he had down to the village and sell it. Shahzada Fatih said that Ali Jan "got martyred". There was a raid by soldiers and he got martyred. The raid took place in summer time when they had cultivated crops. Prior to Ali Jan's death, Shahzada Fatih would see Ali Jan every 20 days or once a month. Ali Jan had no link to the Taliban.


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