Former President of Afghanistan explained why he fled the country and said he supports negotiation with the Taliban

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday he was “in negotiations” to return to his country., after having fled to the United Arab Emirates, and that he supports the talks the Taliban had with his predecessor, Hamid Karzai.

“I support the initiative of the ongoing negotiations led by Abdullah Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai. I want this process to succeed, ”he said in a video message posted to his Facebook account.

Ghani said there was a Taliban plan to assassinate him and that the insurgents were looking for him in the presidential palace. However, the president was on his way to the Defense Ministry, where Afghan security forces protected him.

“The people who were looking for me didn’t speak any of the Afghan dialects, they intended to arrest me and then hang me.Ghani said.

The former president said what happened 25 years ago in Afghanistan was inevitable and would happen again. “It was something to be avoided, an embarrassing development like that,” he noted.

“Regarding the political leadership of the Taliban, it was a failure on their part and a failure on our part that the negotiations came to nothing, the peace process had to lead to the end of the war“, noted.

Ghani said he was in the United Arab Emirates to avoid disasters and said they were in consultation with others until he could return to the country.

Former Afagano president has denied accusations he escaped with large sums of money, as has been emphatically pointed out.

“If I had stayed, I would have seen bloodshed in Kabul. My mission was that, out of thirst for power, Kabul was not going to become another Yemen or SyriaGhani said in his first public intervention since fleeing Afghanistan on Sunday.

This Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates confirmed the presence in Emirati territory of Ghani, which he welcomed for “humanitarian reasons”, which puts an end to the uncertainty of the last few days about his fate.

Ghani left Afghanistan on Sunday, coinciding with the Taliban’s entry into Kabul, which in just over a week took control of most of the Afghan provinces. As he explained on Facebook, he did so to avoid “disaster”.

In contrast, Taliban leaders met on Wednesday with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the deposed government representative for peace negotiations Abdullah Abdullah, the Islamist website monitoring portal SITE reported.

Taliban leaders “said they forgave all former heads of government so that no one was forced to leave the country”SITE reported after the Taliban released footage of Karzai with Anas Haqqani, a member of the Taliban negotiating team.

Abdullah was the representative who negotiated a peace deal with the rebels in Qatar for months. Karzai was the first president of Afghanistan after the US-led invasion in 2001, and he remained in power until 2014.

Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered the release of “political prisonersThe movement that already controls the country tweeted.

“From tomorrow, all provincial governors must release all political prisoners, regardless of their size, without restrictions or conditions, and hand them over to their families,” the statement read in Arabic.

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