He is just 14, too young to have any facial hair but old enough to kill.
His name is Shakirullah and he’s one of the youngest Taliban prisoners being held by Afghan intelligence.
We are given rare access to him by Afghan intelligence, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), at the interrogation cells in the capital, Kabul.
The agents ponder for some minutes over whether to bring him to us handcuffed and decide against it.
Shakirullah walks in with the awkward gait of a teenager, unsure of his audience or the reception he’s going to get.
Two intelligence minders are in the room with us. We are not allowed to film them or identify them but they are well known to the young boy.
There are constant interjections from them as he stumbles and mumbles his way through his story.
He says he had been studying at a madrassa, a religious school, in Pakistan for about six months.
He is from the tribal region of south Waziristan and his family are farmers. This was his first experience of education.
“I was in the madrassa,” he told Sky News.