A simple character introduction, many deficiencies please forgive me.
Abdul Hamid Khorasani
Photographs taken before the fall of the Republic of Afghanistan
Hamid Khorasani is an armed Tajik bandit of Afghan panjahir origin, and his popularity in Afghanistan is very high: "infamous and widely supported" is a mixture of good and bad.
Protracted wars, widespread poverty and ineffective governance are good breeding grounds for crime, and in an Afghan society where armed groups are rife, guns are rampant, and the people are fierce, it is doomed to have countless thieves running rampant.
In the Qin and Han Dynasties, they were also known as heroes who violated the prohibition by force. They breed in places that cannot be officially administered, are the reliance of the villagers and elders, and are widely respected among the townships: they can solve problems that the government cannot solve; justice that the people cannot achieve, they can achieve; and when the oppression of the government comes, they can be avoided by relying on them.
But one of the main reasons for this is the failure of the government to govern at the grassroots level, where disorder is their living space, and when powerful public powers want to go deep into the grassroots to promote their own order, they will be eliminated – physically eradicated or become collaborators of the new order.
In feudal society, weak officials did not have a legal system, and chivalrous guests could manipulate order at will, while in the face of a powerful official palace that pursued the legal system, chivalrous guests who manipulated order could not survive, for example, Guo Xie, a great hero in Kanto, fell victim to Emperor Wu of Han who pursued order.
But this phenomenon does not end with the elimination of certain individuals, in every chaotic era and in the lack of control of the corners will not lack their presence, and in the absence of social justice, the heroic behavior will always become a way to make up for the lack of private remedies, thus being supported and beautified by the grassroots, such as the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, who built houses for the poor in his hometown.
In modern times, they are also known as underworlds, and in Afghanistan they are bandits like Hamid Khorasani.
Hamid (centered) and his men
As a militia commander (and also a bandit), he rose a few years before the fall of the Republic's government, and although he was one of the criminals on the list of the highest-ranking organized criminals in the Republic's Ministry of the Interior, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of the Interior claimed in 2019 that he had committed crimes such as "extorting money from merchants, fuel sellers and shopkeepers, several cases of kidnapping, murder, robbery and extortion". His own reaction to these allegations was the claim that Saleh threw dirty water on him.
Despite being arrested several times between 2019 and 2020, they were all released safely.
And before and after his arrest, he could walk in the streets of Panjshir in a bright way.
Interestingly, he was arrested on June 25, 2019 not for crimes such as extortion and robbery, but for participating in demonstrations against Ghani. On the same day he drove in Kabul to participate in the parade and burned the flag of the Republic of Afghanistan.
Apparently, he has no feelings for the Republic of Afghanistan.
During the march he waved the green, white and black flag of the Northern Alliance, and in the video of him burning the Afghan flag, it was also set against the backdrop of the Northern Alliance flag and claimed that the government and army of the republic led by Ghani were full of Pashtun villains and fascists.
Amrula Saleh, then vice president, quickly signed an order to arrest him, and he scolded Saleh (perhaps for cooperating with Ghani) when he was arrested.
His arrest sparked mass protests from panjahir residents who blocked roads and waved the flag of the Northern Alliance rallied to call on the Ghani government to release him.
Many called him a great man online and in reality, and believed that the reason for his arrest was persecution caused by ethnic and regional prejudices against then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
Protests have not only swarmed in his hometown, but have also spread to Kabul.
Kabul Airport Road was blocked by his supporters, who burned tyres and urged police to release him.
So the Afghan police ordered him to kiss the flag and release him in retaliation for burning the flag on the 25th, and his supporters were naturally full of joy at his release.
His renxia won him many local supporters, he was a terrible bandit in the mouth of the Ministry of the Interior, and he became a great chivalrous in Panjshir.
Between April and May of this year, his chivalrous behavior continued. Hamid Khorasany led his militia to attack the nomads who had been led to Panjhir by the Kabul government, claiming that these nomads were a source of scourge and insecurity and that the nomads who would oppress the panjhir people had to stay far away.
Saleh's response
Saleh was furious and declared on Facebook that "Khorasanni and his mob" would be brought to justice and that nomads would be attacked and harmed, and Panjahir welcomed them.
But no matter how much he said it, he couldn't change the fact that many Panjhir natives didn't like the nomads, so the vice president's supporters and the robber's supporters fought a big fight on social networks.
These are all the reasons for the mixing of his reputation, and his panjhir-centered behavior has gained a lot of support and annoys many people, and he certainly does not stop because someone hates him or cares about his reputation.
Now he is a Taliban fighter
On August 30 of this year, he and his men, waving Taliban flags, attacked the positions of Panjhir's resistance, officially declaring him a Taliban collaborator.
It is worth mentioning that he also filmed a video before throwing himself into the Taliban, declaring that anyone who believes that the crimes of the Taliban are correct have betrayed their homeland.
Now he himself is a member of the Taliban.
It turned out that he did not bet on the wrong treasure, and in the merits and rewards after the capture of Panjshir, he contributed a lot to the battle and became the head of security in Panjhir's locality, thus completing the transformation from a thief to a ruler.
Let's be harsh
Regardless, his background as a thief and disloyal was undoubtedly an obstacle to his career, and the Taliban, who understood this, ultimately chose to remove him from his post as head of security — not completely expelled, of course, and he remained an active commander in Panjshir.
Many people still support the thief as a good candidate to keep Panjahir safe, while many also think that he is just a bastard thief and does not deserve trust and sympathy.
And what the future trajectory of this thief will be, we will know later.