‘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.
Kabul residents criticized the government for indifference to their situation and to the lockdown.
Khalilzad also met President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul and congratulated them on their agreement to form an inclusive government after proctracted negotiations.
According to Tahmasi, a similar drowning incident took place with another six-member group of Afghan migrants.
The Taliban is demanding the release of 5,000 prisoners by the Afghan government based on the US-Taliban agreement.
The government said that it was "open" to continue technical talks with the Taliban "to advance the peace process" to end the 19-year long deadly conflict in the country.
