RASC News Agency: The Green Trend political movement, led by former Afghanistan’s Vice President Amrullah Saleh, has issued a strongly worded condemnation of the Taliban’s recent appointment of an unqualified local militia commander to the post of Deputy Governor in Badghis Province. In a public statement released Tuesday night, the movement described the appointment as “a glaring symbol of the Taliban’s institutional decay and collapse of administrative standards across Afghanistan.” The man in question, known locally as “Kaka Siyakha”, is a former cattle herder from Karkh District in Herat Province. According to the Green Trend, Siyakha has no formal education, no administrative experience, and no credentials other than his tribal ties and loyalty to the Taliban hierarchy. In fact, the statement claims, Siyakha was previously notorious for engaging in acts of robbery, extortion, and even the murder of travelers along the Sabsak Pass.
“The Taliban have handed the keys of provincial administration to a man who has never attended a school or religious seminary,” the statement reads. “By his own admission, he has lived his life far removed from any form of formal knowledge or leadership training. This is not just an insult to governance it is an insult to the very memory of those who died for this country.” The Green Trend’s statement, laced with irony and outrage, declared that such appointments demonstrate how the Taliban’s regime has evolved into a kleptocratic and ethnocentric power structure, where qualification is measured not by competence but by tribal allegiance and blind obedience to the supreme leader.
In a stinging rebuke, the group invoked the memory of Hanzala Badghisi a revered figure in Afghanistan’s literary and resistance history suggesting that his legacy has been desecrated by this appointment:
“What dignity remains in a land where the position once held by visionaries and patriots is now occupied by those accused of banditry? One can only wonder what the spirit of Hanzala Badghisi would feel in the face of this grotesque betrayal.” The Taliban’s chief spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, had earlier announced Siyakha’s appointment on X (formerly Twitter), referring to him as “Haji Kaka Siyakha” and claiming the decision came directly from Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. There has been no mention of Siyakha’s qualifications, prior service, or record only the confirmation of his loyalty to the regime.
Observers say this latest appointment is not an isolated case but part of a broader Taliban strategy to populate state institutions with uneducated loyalists many of whom lack even basic administrative literacy while systematically purging qualified professionals, minorities, and critics from every level of governance. “This is not decentralization,” one analyst told RASC News. “This is the dismantling of statehood. The Taliban have turned provincial governance into a network of tribal fiefdoms run by warlords and herdsmen with no vision and no legitimacy.”
The Green Trend warned that empowering individuals with criminal pasts and no qualifications not only erodes what little remains of Afghanistan’s administrative framework but also deepens public mistrust and accelerates national decay. The statement concludes with a grim prediction:
“If such individuals are now responsible for shaping local policies, administering justice, and controlling resources, then Afghanistan is not on the brink of collapse it has already crossed that threshold.” As of the publication of this report, neither the Taliban leadership nor Siyakha himself have responded to the criticism.
