Abdul Haq Wasiq

Mullah Abdul Haq Wasiq عبدالحق وثیق
Wasiq while detained at Guantanamo Bay
Acting Director of Intelligence
Incumbent
Assumed office September 7, 2021
Leader	Hibatullah Akhundzada
Preceded by	Office established
Prime Minister	Hassan Akhund (acting)
Deputy Minister of Intelligence
In office c. 1996 – November 2001
Prime Minister	Mohammed Rabbani Abdul Kabir
Leader	Mohammed Omar
Personal details
Born	1971 (age 52–53)[1] Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
Political party	Taliban
Occupation	Politician, Taliban member
Military service
Allegiance	Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan)
Years of service	1996–2001
Battles/wars	Afghan civil war War in Afghanistan

Abdul Haq Wasiq (Pashto: عبد الحق واثق [ˈabdʊl haq wɑˈsɪq]; born 1971) is the Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since September 7, 2021.^[2] He was previously the Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the former Taliban government (1996–2001).^[3] He was held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, from 2002 to 2014.^[4] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 4. American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1971 in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

Abdul Haq Wasiq arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on January 11, 2002, and he was held there until May 31, 2014.^[5][6] He was released, along with the other four members of the so-called Taliban Five—Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Norullah Noori, and Mohammad Nabi Omari—in exchange for the release of United States Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network.^[7][8]