ACCEPTED, KOMPAS.TV – The Taliban have taken control of the Afghan capital, Kabul and the Presidential Palace. Even so, a number of political elites expressed resistance, one of which was Vice President Amrullah Saleh.
In fact, Amrullah Saleh declared himself as acting president according to the Afghan constitution.
“When the President is absent, flees, resigns or dies, the vice president becomes interim President. I am currently in the country and am the legal executor of the president’s duties,” Saleh wrote via his Twitter account, Tuesday (17/8/2021) local time.
Saleh delivered the message of resistance from his shelter in the Panjshir Valley, one of the Taliban -free territories.
Saleh took refuge with the politician Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary Afghan resistance hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Saleh said he was trying to establish communication with other Afghan leaders to gain support.
Who exactly is Amrullah Saleh who dared to challenge the Taliban and claim the presidency?
Launch France24, Amrullah Saleh is a politician of Tajik ethnicity, born October 15, 1972. He was born in Panjshir, where he is now taking refuge.
Saleh was orphaned as a child. His family was poor and landless. In 1990, he joined the mujahideen group to avoid conscription in the army of the Soviet-backed government.
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