RASC News Agency: Daoud Naji, head of the Political Committee of the Afghanistan Freedom Front, has issued a stark warning regarding the deteriorating humanitarian and security conditions in Dolatabad district of Faryab province. In a statement posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, June 12, Naji warned that continued Taliban rule would result in even greater repression, deepened poverty, and the total collapse of Afghanistani society. “If the Taliban remain in power, the situation will become even worse. What we’re witnessing is merely the beginning of a descent into barbarism,” Naji wrote.
His warning comes after reports surfaced that residents of Dolatabad, who recently protested against the Taliban’s oppressive conduct, now live in constant fear of reprisals. According to Naji, local communities have been silenced, with civilians too afraid to leave their homes due to the threat of arbitrary detention by Taliban forces. “The Taliban do not need a justification to detain people. They have weapons, and they use force indiscriminately. That is their logic,” he wrote, describing a climate of lawlessness where fear substitutes justice.
Once a vibrant district, Dolatabad now resembles an abandoned village. Naji described empty streets, shuttered markets, and families gripped by fear particularly during a season when agricultural activity should be at its peak. The Taliban’s campaign of intimidation has crippled local livelihoods and paralyzed the very backbone of rural survival. Naji emphasized that the growing distance between the Taliban and the people of Afghanistan, including former sympathizers, is becoming unbridgeable. The group’s authoritarian grip and disregard for public welfare have alienated the very population it once claimed to represent.
“Where is Salahuddin Ayoubi now the so-called conqueror of the Presidential Palace?” Naji asked, referring sarcastically to the Taliban’s internal propaganda figures. “Is this what victory looks like silence, hunger, and fear?” Naji argued that surrendering to the Taliban is not an option, stating that silence in the face of tyranny only invites further repression. He called on the people of Afghanistan to resist, unite, and reject the legitimacy of Taliban rule:
“There is no salvation in submission. The only path forward is to bring an end to Taliban rule. This regime does not deliver security it dismantles lives, crushes freedoms, and erodes every pillar of civil society.”
He concluded with a chilling forecast: if the Taliban’s grip on power continues to strengthen, the current state of fear and collapse may solidify into a permanent reality one marked by systemic violence, the erasure of women and minorities, and the institutionalization of medieval governance. “If their regime stabilizes, today’s horrors will become tomorrow’s normal. We must act now before Afghanistan slips further into irreversible darkness.”
