KABUL: Taliban fighters have taken over the luxurious kabul mansion from one of their most fierce enemies – warlords and president of Ex-Vice Buron Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Now in the hands of rank and submitting Taliban fighters, luxury villas have given harsh Islamists to peek at the life of the former Afghan ruler, and they say the luxury is the result of endemic corruption years.
Throughout the endless corridor with a thick apple-green carpet, a young sleeper 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.
AFP luxury seeing a large house tour will be unimaginable for the most ordinary Afghans.
Large glass chandeliers hang in the cavernosa hall, a large soft sofa provides a labyrinth of the lounge and an indoor pool finished with complicated turquoise tiles.
Even boast of a sauna, a complete Turkish steam bath and a 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,” Ayoubi told AFP, adding luxury to heaven, “life after death”.
The owner of the Mansion, Dostume, is a famous figure who was woven into Afghan history recently.
A former Paratooper forces, Communist commanders, warlords and vice presidents, he is the definition of a cunning political survivor that is resistant for more than four decades of conflict in Afghanistan which is torn war.
Apart from a series of war crimes related to the Dostum forces, the former Afghan government hopes that his military and boiling hatred assumers to the Taliban will help them survive.
But the fortress was flooded and the 67-year-old Gabu-Abuan had escaped across the border to Uzbekistan.
Dostum is widely thought to have a very profitable from corruption and embezzlement that discredit former government.
Some officials illegally take land to build a luxury house in one environment, resulting in the nickname “Thieves’ Quarter” among the locals.
In one big house wing, Taliban fighters relax in a massive tropical greenhouse from a few hundred square meters under a large glass roof.
It was ignored by the Mezzanine which was dominated by a dark wood bar – the agreement with the decadent appetite reported from a famous general due to a strong tendency and liquor.
Taliban have a good reason to hate the dostum.
In 2001, he was accused of killing more than 2,000 fighters – locking a lot in the container in the middle of the desert where they died limply in the charred sunlight.
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.
But the new regime will not allow such luxury to be built with unhealthy profits in the future, he said.
“We are on the side of the poor,” he said, when dozens of visitors wait patiently in the corridor, with Engly watching indifferent fish.
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