‘Taliban didn’t plan to assassinate Ashraf Ghani after takeover’
Baradar added that Mullah Hebtullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliban, has announced a general amnesty that is applicable to all, including the former President.
Baradar added that Mullah Hebtullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliban, has announced a general amnesty that is applicable to all, including the former President.
Shinwari disclosed this for the first time in a televised interview on the fall of the regime. He revealed in an interview that five days before the fall of the regime (Sunday, August 15), at a meeting of the National Security Council, information about a plot to assassinate President Ghani was leaked and shared with security official, the report said.
Senior Taliban leader Khalil ur Rahman Haqqani said: "there is no enmity" between the group and Ghani, Saleh, and former National Security Advisor, Hamdullah Mohib.
Right after the Taliban stormed into Kabul, reports broke that the President had fled the country to Tajikistan while some reports claimed Uzbekistan. The Russian Embassy in Kabul had said that Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash.
Afghan media reported 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.
"I will never accept Taliban domination on the people of Afghanistan under any deal that is dictated and imposed by Taliban," Fiest Vice President Amrullah Saleh said.
Taliban fighters have moved in on three provincial capitals in the last few days and seized territory nationwide since Washington said it planned a complete withdrawal of troops by September.
The incident deserves to be treated with far greater seriousness than the government in Islamabad has been able to muster.
The US-Taliban deal signed in Qatar on February 29 calls for the release of up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners to open the way for intra-Afghan negotiations.
Over the past years, the capital city has been hit by a series of terror attacks by the Taliban insurgents and militants of the Islamic State
