Overview
- DFAT named Muhammad Khalid Hanafi, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, Abdul‑Hakim Sharei, and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani as the targets.
- The listings are the first under a new autonomous Afghanistan sanctions framework described by Australia as a world‑first.
- Measures include a travel ban to Australia plus prohibitions on supplying arms, related services, or dealing with the officials’ assets and funds.
- The government says the action responds to restrictions on girls’ education, women’s employment, freedom of movement, and participation in public life.
- Canberra says the framework builds on existing UN listings and preserves a humanitarian permit, while the ICC has an arrest warrant for Haqqani and the Taliban had not publicly responded.