The Taliban’s Ministry of Justice has announced that over the past four years, it has partially or fully seized 49 residential townships in 14 provinces of the country.

In a newsletter on Thursday September 17,, the 26th of Sunbula, the ministry said that the Commission for the Prevention of Land Grabbing and the Recovery of Grabbed Lands has reviewed the lands of residential townships across the country.

According to the newsletter, these townships are located in the provinces of Kabul, Balkh, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Kandahar, Helmand, Jawzjan, Samangan, Zabul, Faryab, Baghlan, Parwan, and Kunduz.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Justice added that orders to seize these lands were issued by the Commission for the Prevention of Land Grabbing and the special court for handling cases of grabbed lands.

This comes as the Taliban, after returning to power, have begun the process of reviewing and seizing lands and residential townships in various parts of the country.