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2021-08-16 Afghanistan

End of republic, Kabul’s first night under Taliban’s control

Article posted to Khaama Press Monday, 16 Aug 2021 06:34 AM Afghan Time

[KhaamaPress] Hours after Afghanistan's Caped 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...
along with his close aides and the first lady left Kabul for Tajikistan, the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
entered Presidential Palace ARG.

The retreat of Afghan national police from their outposts around the capital left the city in chaos and allow the city to be looted and plundered easily. Though the Taliban earlier on Sunday had said that there is no plan to enter the Afghan capital militarily, the security vacuum in Kabul city made them decide to direct their fighters to enter Kabul and occupy the empty police outposts and police districts.

Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era...
International airport was also packed with tens of passengers awaiting flights out of the country who then took to the runway but found no plane and are still stuck there.

To avoid the power vacuum created after the escape of the president, head of High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah

...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...
, former President Hamid Karzai and head of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbadin Hekmatyar came together and shaped a temporary council.

The council is aimed at transferring the power peacefully to the Taliban and asked Afghan cops and forces of the Afghanistan Islamic Emirate to secure Kabul city and do not allow any chaos.

The trio in their separate video clips delivered different messages to the people of Kabul.

Abdullah Abdullah accused Ashraf Ghani of fleeing the country and leaving the people in mess. Abdullah also erupted into the streets of Kabul and greet the people who were hugging crying and thanked him for being with them.

Hamid Karzai encouraged people not to panic as he and his children are still living in the Afghan capital.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
Gulbadin Hekmatyar accused Ashraf Ghani of continuing the war and remaining stubborn to transfer power peacefully to a government that is acceptable to all.

The Afghanistan Islamic Emirate asked people to cooperate with them in identifying and arresting those who impersonate them and rob people and property.

In several video clips shot by the members of AIE show that looters and plunderers were arrested after people call them.

The night was rather quiet when it comes to the nightlife of a city but there were sporadic fires and the choppers were patrolling the Afghan capital.

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File under: Taliban

#1
Taliban Flag Flying Over The Former Presidential Palace in Kabul, The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Posted by Wholing Sholung2774 2021-08-16 02:20|| 2021-08-16 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2
Taliban To Declare Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [Foreign Brief]

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#3 Exodus from Afghanistan: Hundreds of thousands flee their homes as Taliban take over country with people smuggler revealing thousands are already crossing the border PER DAY on their way to Europe and the UK

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-16 09:39|| 2021-08-16 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Deja vu all over again: In 1989 the first trusted friend that Pakistan wanted to install in Kabul was Hekmatyar. For three years, Hekmatyar targeted the city with tens of thousands of rockets provided by the Pak Milirary ISI. He also launched ground attacks against a sitting government, the most serious one occurred in January 1994 in an attack joined by Abdur Rashid Dostom, and Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of the Shi‘ite Wahdat Party. As one author put it, "Only the ISI could bring such strange bedfellows together!" When Pakistan realized Hekmatyar’s inability to attain power in Kabul, it designed a new plot fomented by General Naseerullah Babar, the Pakistani Interior Minister. Babar is considered the “Godfather” of the Taliban, and ISI fundeed Taliban for years. Covering its bases, the ISI continued its ties to Hekmatyar, and both were surprised at how quickly the Taliban conquered Kabul in late September 1996. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-16 10:13|| 2021-08-16 10:13|| Front Page Top

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