Brother of Afghanistan’s Constitutional ‘Caretaker President’ Executed by Taliban, Family Says

A burnt down Humvee is seen along a road in Dashtak, Panjshir province, on Sept. 6, 2021. AFP via Getty Images

The Taliban have executed the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former Afghan vice president who challenged the Taliban’s claims to government, his nephew said on Friday.

Saleh said in the days following former President Ashraf Ghani’s fleeing that led to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban that, according to the country’s 2004 constitution, he is the “legitimate caretaker president.”