KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, has confirmed that as the Taliban took control of the country President Ashraf Ghani and Vice President Amrullah Saleh had left the country to go to Oman via Tajikistan.
By means of Facebook account Ashraf Ghani attempted to justify his bolting from the scene of crisis leaving his people to face the music:
“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Interestingly, just ten days ago, boasting of not being a deserter, he criticized late Afghan king Amanullah Khan for fleeing the country:
Moreover, Abdullah Abdullah took to the Twitter to post his message to the people of Afghanistan, to security forces and to the Taliban. calling Ashraf Ghani former president he informed that he had bolted from the country. He asked the people to keep calm. He asks the Afghan forces to cooperate in ensuring security. He asked the Taliban to allow some time for talks before entering the city of Kabul.
Pakistan government will ponder over the development in a rendezvous on Monday 16th of August. On Sunday 15th of August, 2021 Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi talked to his British counterpart Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary & First Secretary of State, by means of phone to discuss the fast changing scenario in Afghani. Dominic Raab stated via Twitter: “Shared my deep concerns about the future for Afghanistan with FM Qureshi. Agreed it is critical that the international community is united in telling the Taliban that the violence must end and human rights must be protected.”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called Cobra (an Emergency Response Committee (involving ministers, civil servants and other concerned people relevant to the subject under discussion) meeting Sunday 15th of August, 2021 to discuss the aggravating state-of-affairs here. Earlier, Afghan Interior Ministry here stated that Taliban fighters, who did not meet much resistance from the America-trained Army, entered the suburbs of the Capital from all sides. According to sources privy to NPTV, the said agreement has been signed following a clandestine dialogue held in the presidential palace, refereed by Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.
Abdullah Abdullah later confirmed that as the Taliban took control of the country President Ashraf Ghani and Vice President Amrullah Saleh had left the country to go to Tajikistan. Moreover, Abdullah Abdullah took to the Twitter to post his message to the people of Afghanistan, to security forces and to the Taliban. calling Ashraf Ghani former president he informed that he had bolted from the country. He asked the people to keep calm. He asks the Afghan forces to cooperate in ensuring security. He asked the Taliban to allow some time for talks before entering the city of Kabul.
The fighters have been instructed by Taliban leaders to refrain from any violence and not to stop anybody who wants to leave. US troops continued evacuating the Embassy staff. According to eyewitnesses as helicopters lifted personnel from US embassy, decoy flares were shot in the air as aerial infrared countermeasure to counter an infra-red heat-seeking SAM or A2A missile. US Embassy happens to harbor lists of people who they believe should be taken out of Afghanistan. 600 British troops have also been deployed to facilitate the safe departure of UK nationals as well as others. A number of helicopters landed at the US Embassy. However, Russia has proclaimed it was not calling its Envoy back to Moscow.
Cynics go haywire watching how Kabul fell sans any fight and wonder where those American billions of dollars were spent? The amount was meant to be utilized to raise an army. But what kind of an army did the US form? However, President Joe Biden seems content with the state-of-affairs as he defends his decision apropos evacuation by saying he could not justify endless American presence in Afghanistan. Savants at the helm of affairs insinuate that the ‘script’ was written as such and things were supposed to happen the way it is happening.
It seems that the people of Afghanistan were tired of corruption and American puppets ruling them. The security forces too were dependent on the American firepower. But Afghans were not willing to lay their lives for the likes of Ashraf Ghani who left the ship as soon as the turmoil commenced. Meanwhile, Unicef has informed that till this time Taliban have respected the sanctity of the charity’s offices. According to Unicef spokeswoman in Kabul militants wanted the UN to stay and continue their work. She said that Taliban had not only been polite but were also safeguarding UN operations.
According to FM French embassy, moved closer to the Kabul Airport, would keep on operating in order to facilitate the evacuation of all French citizens from Afghanistan. David Martinon, Ambassador of France to Afghanistan has taken to the Twitter to share a video apropos leaving the former Green Zone (diplomatic enclave) in Kabul:
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