Born: 1960 to 1962;

Place of Birth: Band-e-Temor, Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Afghanistan; alt. Pakistan;

Address: Quetta, Pakistan;

Known also as: Mullah Samad Sani; Samad Sani; Haji Nika; Haji Nika Ishaqzai; Haji Salani.

Activities:
In early 2017, Sani sent weapons to Taliban members who later attacked an Afghan National Police (ANP) patrol that resulted in the death of one ANP officer and the wounding of two others.

As of June 2015, Sani was a member of the Taliban Senior Shura who had received funding to purchase supplies and ammunition for Taliban commanders and fighters engaged in combat in Afghanistan.

As of March 2015, Sani was personally involved in appointing special representatives to serve as Taliban fundraisers abroad.

In 2014, he traveled to the Gulf to obtain funding and supplies. As of February 2014, the Taliban appointed Sani to take charge of marble mining operations and increase mining production, and that summer he was responsible for collecting funds from an onyx mine in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and other smuggling operations in which the Taliban had a vested interest.

As of November 2013, Sani assisted Taliban commanders and fighters with the financial costs of their medical treatment by arranging for the payment of their medical bills.

In August 2013, he arranged for an Iran-based associate to help a Taliban fundraiser in Iran meet potential donors.

As of November 2012, Sani was responsible for collecting donations from businessmen who were Taliban sympathizers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And in late 2012, Sani traveled at the request of the Taliban Finance Commission Head, Gul Agha, to the Girdi Jungal area in Pakistan and collected approximately $450,000 worth of Pakistani rupees from narcotics traffickers.

He has served as the Taliban’s Deputy Finance Commissioner, and served as the Governor for the Afghan Central Bank during the Taliban regime.