US govt's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction says Ashraf Ghani fled with about $440,000 belonging to Afghan govt during Taliban takeover in August 2021.
Afghanistan’s Acting PM Mullah Mohammad Hassan said the former US-backed Ashraf Ghani government was corrupt and damaged the country’s economic situation.
Ghani, who became Afghanistan president in 2014, was seen as an outsider who lacked the political touch to unite disparate factions, and he became more isolated over time.
A spokesperson of the Russian embassy in Kabul claims Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled with cars and helicopters full of cash and some money was left lying on the tarmac.
The embassy also tagged India's MEA, the Taliban spokesperson and Afghanistan’s Presidential Office in the tweet. It was shared more than 700 times before being deleted.
There has been a reprisal of killings, women being ordered from their workplaces into their homes and girls forbidden from attending school now that the Taliban are back in power.
Gun-toting civilians brandish Kalashnikovs, angry policemen harass civilians and people forced to walk, leaving their cars, as the Afghan capital turns into a battlefield of sorts.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani tells nation he won’t let an ‘imposed war’ derail it as first forces of a Marine battalion arrive in Kabul to speed up US evacuation.
Ashraf Ghani is feeling increasingly isolated as the US leaves the country and the Taliban gain diplomatic support from key countries such as Pakistan, Russia and China.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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