Faryab’s governor-appointee Mohammad Daud Laghmani has returned to the Afghan capital city of Kabul on Tuesday, following his appointment just over a week ago, and still hasn’t been able to take power, with protesters opposing him.
Laghmani has spent the last 10 days on an army base in Faryab Province, while protests raged in the provincial capital of Maimana. Senators are saying no one should be given the post until they can calm the situation down, though the government has temporarily declared acting deputy governor Abdul Muqim Rasikh, as acting temporary governor as well.
Protesters say they’ll accept Rasikh, for now, but that they want a new governor, and they’ve offered a handful of nominees of their own. It’s not clear who is on that list, but the Ghani government clearly prefers to have its own man independent of protester input.
Laghmani’s untenable position was no surprise, as Mashal Abdul Rashid Dostum had been opposing him to the extent that he’d ordered his forces to not let the governor into the provincial capital. That led officials to try to start Laghmani out on an army base, and see if he could stay there and sort of quietly operate the province. Today’s return showed definitively that he could not.
The rats are fighting among themselves, which is good. Makes the Taliban’s work easier.
I haven’t been keeping up on this. But it does not seem any indication of a smooth transition to lackeys of the U.S. & NATO. The Taliban is cocked & ready to deliver the U. S. war parties another Siagon Embassy Fiasco & iglominius route. Stay tuned as the Neocons look to lay the shame on those who opposed war with the wreckers of empires at the outset. Trillions squandered and too much American blood spilled trying to conquer that rough & fiercely independent crew who surely bring woe 2 those trespassers on Postune soil and Pastunwalla.