The town fell, but a single unpaid payday opened the gates
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The town fell, but a single unpaid payday opened the gates
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The town fell, but a single unpaid payday opened the gates
In this episode, we trace the chain of decisions, deals and debts that led to Mazar-i-Sharif changing hands in 1997-98. We follow a defection, a broken agreement and months of unpaid soldiers to ask how a city was handed over when its defenders should have known better.
Person: Rasul Pahlawan
Person: Abdul Malik Pahlawan
Person: Abdul Rashid Dostum
Date: 25 June 1996
Event: Five months of unpaid soldiers within Dostum’s forces
- On 25 June 1996 Rasul Pahlawan was killed alongside fifteen bodyguards, an event that poisoned Junbish relations for eleven months.
- By spring 1997 Dostum’s militia had not been paid for five months, a structural crack in an organization held together by cash and loyalty.
- On 19 May 1997 Malik negotiated a three-point deal in Baghdis with Taliban commanders including Mullah Abdul Razzaq and Mullah Mohammad Ghaus.
- On 24-25 May 1997 Dostum fled to Uzbekistan; Malik detained up to five thousand of Dostum’s soldiers and two thousand five hundred Taliban fighters entered Mazar-i-Sharif.
- Within seventy-two hours the Taliban moved to disarm Hazara militias despite the agreement, triggering a local uprising on 28 May 1997.
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