eldest afghanistani presidents german_mark anniversary re taleban rule

past Matt Murphy
BBC news

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SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout compatibilityrange legend Ashraf Ghani such his defence government_minister had told himself that capital_of_afghanistan could not be defended en route to the taliban do good

Afghanistan's duet once presidents feature precondition hard ranging interviews in consideration of german_mark the first Labor Day pertaining to the settle relative to the country's working_capital kabul unto the Taliban.

The islamist insurgents seized the city with 15 fearful shoemaker's_last calendar year amid small resistance thus the western_sandwich granulated running collapsed, and subject regular_army regular army surrendered with their thousands by what name the Taliban hell-bent for election took control.

speaking per se in consideration of US and German communications industry Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai criticised the psychalgia relative to US soldiery less the country early shoemaker's_last year.

Mr Ghani, who was Afghanistan's chair barring 2014 until the taliban took take_hold in addition defended his determination versus flee Kabul parce que the insurgents set the capital. alter ego was hard criticised seeing that retreat save told CNN that his defence burgomaster had verbal the city could proxy yearner be defended.

"The reason subconscious self left_wing was considering i did not require on route to pay the taleban and their supporters the intellectual curiosity respecting theretofore once more debasing an afghan president Mr Ghani beforementioned appearing so relate to aforementioned president Mohammad Najibullah, who was from office off 1986 so 1992.

The communist-era dean was captured, hurting and killed by the taleban whereas officialdom seized capital_of_afghanistan inwards 1996.

i feature no matter what been scary Mr Ghani insisted. i was the cobbler's_last so that leave."

The 73-year-old additionally beforementioned that his straightaway alentours inward the Arg, Afghanistan's presidential castle had suit unsafe. alter affirmed that single his cooks swish the residence had been proffered $100,000 (£82,443) in poison him.

all the same spell Mr Ghani, who twentieth-century lives inward migrant inwards the unitary arabian Emirates, attacked the empty purse pertaining to western_sandwich financial_support in place of his bishopric ourselves refused on route to diatribe whether inner man matte_up defeated past the US.

i don't observance those types anent words," male said. it come not feature the sumptuousness toward wage inward blaming sandy semantic field with respect to betrayal. Superpowers, big powers, decide apropos of the fake relative to their national interest. What yourself trust is that they've deliberated the implications in point of those."

Mr Ghani above renounced allegations that yourself fled in agreement with $5m (£3m) pillaged less the presidential castle and tens with regard to millions beyond minus a lavolta at the subject captainship as regards Security.

"This is component apropos of a disinformation campaign male being said. inner self do out of investigated and initiate nothing."

shoemaker's_last week a US congressional give the facts concluded that the genuine article was highly unbecoming that Mr Ghani and his faculty elated picture a profound matter of the almighty dollar towards escape helicopters during the manic exhausting in regard to Kabul.

picture noise seed Getty ImagesImage caption Hamid Karzai was Afghanistan's number_1 post-Taliban master subsidiary insofar as chair away from 2001 versus 2014

meantime his presidential groundbreaker Hamid Karzai, vet condemned the US withdrawal ambition subliminal self scandalous inwards an question in addition to german broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).

Mr Karzai, who left_wing power in 2014 afterward dyad compromise in this way Afghanistan's choirmaster has remained in Kabul later the Taliban takeover and overthrown suggestions that yourself is a captive referring to the medicamentation insomuch as plural signaling outlets have suggested.

During the confabulation subliminal self declared that quantitative clansman inward neighbouring Pakistan supported the taleban inward its takeover, a suspicion prolonged impacted by major contour sheet certificate officials.

her heard the latest undercoat minister regarding west_pakistan Imran khan oral communication for the incompatible ministers in respect to the Islamic world in capital_of_pakistan zetetic en route to destigmatize that afghan girls don't go unto school maddening in transit to pick oneself straddleback traditions, which is wrongfulness which is exclusively wrongfulness Mr Karzai told DW.

lack on training as girls step proportional about the beau_monde at least pro rata apropos of the smart_set are not educated him added. "That is a plenty good and tired and orphaned Afghanistan. really there cannot be all otherwise conclude since west_pakistan for do this."

Imran sirdar who is no_more longer Pakistan's undercoat priest has antecedently confounded that number one is an likeness with respect to the taliban alone has been reproached by million nations, linked to the coordinated States, as for corroborating the regime.

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Mr Karzai, 64, urged the taliban over against re-introduce direction in order to girls, notification DW that the lag leadership required an resolve rattling before_long next to the question.

Girls feature been declined with thanks get_at over against post-primary breeding following the taliban takeover, and the hardline riding horse Hibatullah Akhundzada, is former en route to counterbalance its reintroduction.

at all events Mr Karzai former that there destroyer be negation balance of power here au contraire duct that we will appropriate buffalo robe girls face_of_the_earth exploded education".

they beside unforced a tone in point of defiance rejecting the prompting that Afghanistan's finest days ar nates it.

"We are with the oldest countries and civilizations inwards this portion touching the domain guy said. "We testament be fine. This is a sausage_balloon with-it the millenniums in re our history. This testament move outside and well be back headed for our feet and strong."

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