KABUL: Taliban fighters oversee the checkpoint around Kabul airport on Thursday because their concerns prevent Afghanistan from reaching evacuation flights, with the United States demanding a safe field.
Tens of thousands of people have tried to escape from Afghanistan since the hardline Islamic guerrillas swept into the capital on Sunday, resolved the amazing defeat of government forces and ended two decades of war.
Taliban leaders in the last few days have swore not to take revenge against their opponents, while trying to project a tolerance image.
They also associate to describe the growing political authorities, with the Taliban Co-Founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar back from exile and other senior figures to meet former President Hamid Karzai.
But the United States said on Wednesday, the Taliban denied the promise to allow Afghans who work with the United States and its allies abroad.
“We have seen reports that the Taliban, contrary to their public statements and their commitment to our government, prevents the Afghans who want to leave the country from reaching the airport,” said Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told reporters.
“We hope they let all American citizens, all third citizens and all Afghans who want to go to do it safely and without harassment.” – Disconnect to go – Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Tuesday that the new regime would be “different positively” from their 1996-2001 task.
Their rules are then famous for ultra-strict interpretation of sharia law, showing deaths from stoning, girls are prohibited from school and women to work with men.
The United States finally led the Afghan invasion to drop the Taliban because they continued to provide Sanctuary for Al-Qaeda after September 11 attacks.
“I was desperate to leave, I had a bad memory of their regime,” 30-year-old people who work for a foreign NGO and try but fail to reach Kabul airport on Wednesday to AFP.
“They hate people who have worked for other agents than their movements.” The person tells a fired hearing shot, and the crowd of people who tried to reach the airport.
“Even so, the people (shootings) move forward just because they know the situation worse than death waiting for them outside the airport.” The United States said it had channeled nearly 5,000 US and Afghan residents, while France, Britain and other countries have also organized evacuation flights.
But the Taliban is not solely to blame over Afghans cannot escape.
The Netherlands said on Wednesday, his first evacuation flight returned without one Dutch or National Afghanistan when US forces blocked them into the airport.
At first, before the US military controlled greater at the airport, there was a tragic despair scene with the masses of people who tried to board the plane.
Several recordings showed hundreds of people ran with the US Air Force plane when rolling down the runway, with some sticking on that side.
One person was later found dead on the wheels well aircraft.
– Political Authority – President Joe Biden – Under pressure inside and abroad for handling US troops after 20 years of war – said on Wednesday that some soldiers could continue to cross the UK deadline to ensure all Americans came out.
In an interview with ABC News, Biden also issued another defense of withdrawal.
“The idea that somehow there are ways to come out without further chaos, I don’t know how it happened,” said Biden in the ABC news television interview.
On the front of the political, the Taliban continued the advantage to build a government, meeting with senior Afghan figures from the past two decades.
Taliban negotiator Anas Haqqani met with Karzai, Afghan leader who was supported by the west after the Taliban Ouster in 2001, and Abdullah Abdullah, who had led the Government Peace Board, said the site monitoring group.
In the United Arab Emirates, expelled the President of Ashraf Ghani – who fled on Sunday when the rebels were closed in the capital – said he supported negotiations between Taliban and former high-ranking officials, and in his own conversation to return home.
But Sherman said Ghani was “no longer numbers” at a complex political stage in the country.
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