KABUL: Taliban fighters have taken over the luxurious kabul mansion from one of their most fierce enemies – warlords and former vice president of Buron Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Now in the hands of rank and filing Taliban fighters, luxury villas have provided a hard fundamentalist to live the life of the former Afghan ruler, and they say the luxury is the result of endemic corruption years.
Along the corridor with thick apple-green carpets, sleepers slumped on the couch, the Kalashnikov rifle was resting on it, as an exotic fish slid on it in one of the seven giant tanks.
The fighters were part of the detail of personal security from Qari Salahuddin Ayoubi – one of the most powerful commanders of the new regime – who put up his company from 150 people in the Mansion on August 15, Kabul’s day fell.
The luxury of the house will be unimaginable for the most ordinary Afghans.
Large glass chandeliers hang in a large hall, the soft sofa provides a labyrinth of the lounge and an indoor pool finished with complicated turquoise tiles.
It even offers a complete sauna and gym.
This is the experience of this world for new residents, which for many years sacrificed the comfort of beings for rebellion – living with their intelligence in the plains, valleys, and mountains in the Afghan countryside.
But the new household head – now the four-provincial military commander – makes it clear, the people will not get used to luxury.
“Islam never wants us to have a luxurious life,” said Ayoub, adding luxury to heaven, “life after death”.
Famous figure in the history of Afghanistan recently, the owner of Mansion, Dostum, allegedly benefited from corruption and embezzlement that discredit former government.
When Kabul fell, his castle was flooded and 67 years old escaped to Uzbekistan.
Taliban have a good reason to hate the dostum.
In 2001, he was accused of killing more than 2,000 fighters – locking lots of containers in the middle of the desert where they died limply.
But the Ayoubi Commander refused the desire to take revenge.
“If other people have been oppressed like we come here, you will not see chairs and tables.
They may have destroyed them,” he said.