...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...in a video clip said that the former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
left Afghanistan.
He said that he left the people of Afghanistan in mess and misery and he will be judged in futurity.
Ashraf Ghani along with NSA Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of President Fazel Mahmood Fazli left Afghanistan for Tajikistan.
Earlier, speaker of Afghan parliament Mir Rahman Rahmani, Younus Qanuni, Muhammad Muhaqeq, Karim Khalili, Ahmad Wali Masoud, and Ahmad Zia Masoud fled to Islamabad.
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in an official statement said that the fighters were directed to enter Kabul city so that they prevent potential looting and chaos in the city.
The statement reads that, since Afghan forces have left outposts in Kabul city, there is a risk of plundering.
Kabul is taken by the fighters at a time when the power is not transferred yet and a delegation is said to be leaving for Doha to complete the process.
Two sources said that President Ashraf Ghani has left the country after the Taliban entered the city on Sunday.
According to the sources, his close aides have also left the country along with him.
Earlier in the day, acting defense minister Bismillah Mohammadi said that the president has handed the authority of solving the crisis in the country to political leaders.
Mohammadi said that a delegation will travel to Doha on Monday for talks on the country’s situation.
The delegation includes key political leaders, including Younus Qanooni, Ahmad Wali Massoud, Mohammad Mohaqiq among others.
Sources close to the Taliban said that it has been agreed that Ghani will resign after a political agreement and hand the power to a transitional government.
Afghans have said that they seek a political settlement and an end to the ongoing violence in the country.
#AFG “ Defense minister Bismillah Khan fled in a military air craft with 3 of his sons.” A source tells me.
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) August 15, 2021
Video of Taliban fighters inside the presidential palace, via @AJArabic pic.twitter.com/nsFoUOocSC
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) August 15, 2021
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