KARACHI, PAKISTAN (NYTIMES) - It was 20 years ago when a militant - a defence ministry official in the Taliban's first government - fled Afghanistan as US troops swept into the country. He settled in southwestern Pakistan with other Afghans, bought a house and became a baker.
Leaders promised to retain civil servants and prioritise ethnic diversity for top government roles, but instead have filled positions at all management levels with soldiers and theologians. Other government employees have fled or refused to work, leaving widespread vacancies in the fragile state.For years, Pakistan officially denied the existence of Mr Ghayoor and thousands of other ex-Taliban fighters quietly living within its borders.
"Running insurgency and state are two different things," said Mr Noor Khan, 40, an accountant who fled Kabul for Islamabad in early September, among hundreds of other Afghan professionals hoping for asylum in Europe. A similar mass exodus of Afghanistan's professional class occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, when the Soviets withdrew and the Taliban wrested control from the warlords who filled the leadership vacuum.
Mr Enayat Alokozai, a spokesman for the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, denied these accusation and said Salaam's service had improved under the Taliban."All technical staff are in place and they do their routine duties," he said.
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