'Don't panic and get back to work', Taliban order former officials

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Reuters) - Ashraf Haidari, an economist at the Aghan finance ministry, was waiting anxiously at home when a call came from the Taliban: a commander ordered him back to work so he could help run the country once the "crazy foreigners" had left.

Like thousands of others working for the outgoing Western-backed administration, swept aside by the Islamist militants' lightning conquest of Afghanistan, he worried he might be the victim of reprisals.

On the other end of the line was a Taliban commander, urging Haidari to return to his ministry where he works allocating funds to the country's 34 provinces.

"He said don't panic or try to go into hiding, the officials need your expertise to run our country after the crazy foreigners leave," Haidari, 47, told Reuters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dont-panic-back-taliban-order-172809909.html

Until morale improves the beatings will continue.

[The Magistrate]

1. It Is A Dilemna For Them, Sir

They haven't the expertise in their own ranks to do the things that must be done to govern a country. Political power may grow out of the barrel of a gun, but competent administration does not, and popularity depends on that.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Also a rather serious dilemma for the official who's answering the phone I'd imagine (nt)

[The Magistrate]

4. Quite True, Sir

There are no 'backsies' in a circumstance of this sort. Like Czarist experts after the revolution, people in his position will never be able to wake up in the morning certain the axe won't fall today.

[Texaswitchy]

2. They got a tiger by the tail.

Interesting times ahead.

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[Texaswitchy]

5. What if they do not go back to work.

Beat them or kill them