Islamabad: The former Afghan president said he had no choice but suddenly left Kabul when the Taliban closed and denied the agreement was in the work for a peaceful takeover, denied officials of former Afghan and US officials.
Former President Ashraf Ghani said in a BBC interview that showed Thursday that an advisor gave him just a few minutes to decide to leave the capital city.
He also denied broad allegations that he left Afghanistan with millions of people in stolen money.
Sudden departure and Secret Ghani August 15 left a unlucky city because US and NATO forces were in the final stages of chaotic withdrawals from the country after 20 years.
“In that morning, I had no feelings that in the afternoon I would leave,” Ghani told BBC radio.
His comments contrary to other accounts.
Former President Hamid Karzai Old Associated the capital.
After calling the Government Defense Minister Bismillah Khan, the Minister of Home Affairs and the police chief and found all had escaped from the capital, Karzai said he invited the Taliban to Kabul “to protect the population so that the city did not fall into unwanted chaos and elements Which might loot the country, loot shops.
“But Ghani in his radio interview with British Gen.
Sir Nick Carter, a former defense chief of staff, said he escaped from “ to prevent the destruction of Kabul, ” claiming two rival Taliban fractions down in the city and ready to enter and wage bitter battle for control.
There is no evidence in the Taliban entry from the Ghani rival faction as intended.
The rebel power quickly took control of the palace and according to humanitarian aid workers, who spoke with anonymous requirements because they wanted to speak personally, and who was there at the time, the Taliban moved to protect their compounds.
However, the entry of the Taliban to the Capital met with widespread fears and deep longing by many people to escape from their very poor homeland even though billions of international money for 20 years the government supported by A.S.
has been in power.
Ghani in his insight denied broad allegations that he left Afghanistan with stolen money cache.
General Inspector U.S.
Especially for the reconstruction of Afghanistan John Sopko was assigned to investigate the allegations.
The consecutive Afghan government, as well as independent foreign contractors and Afghanistan has been accused of widespread corruption over the past 20 years with dozens of reports by Sopko documenting the most terrible incidence of corruption.
Washington has spent $ 146 billion in reconstruction in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, even before rebels returned in August, the poverty rate in Afghanistan was 54 percent.
Earlier this week organized crime and corruption reporting projects, an investigation reporting organization with 150 journalists in more than 30 countries, registered by Ghani among the most corrupt leaders in the world.
Belarus President Alexandr Lukashenko was named the most corrupt with Ghani, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz among the most corrupt finalists.
After being told by his national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib that his personal protection forces were unable to defend him, said Ghani, he decided to leave.
Saying Mohib, who was “really scared,” gave him just two minutes to decide whether to leave, Ghani insisted he wasn’t sure where he would be brought even after he was in a helicopter to evacuate Kabul.
Ghani did not discuss the collapse of the Afghan military fast and quickly in a few weeks before the last arrival of the Taliban in Kabul but he blamed the US agreement signed by the Taliban in 2020 to collapse in the end.
The agreement establishes conditions for the final withdrawal of troops A.S.
And the remaining NATO who ended the non-country of America.
‘This is also provided for the release of 5,000 Taliban detainees, which Ghani said strengthening the rebel power.