Details of Ashraf Ghani’s escape from the first deputy prime minister of Afghanistan.
In a new narrative, Amrullah Saleh details Ashraf Ghani’s planned escape and how the Afghan government fell.
Amrullah Saleh, the former first deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, reacted to an interview with fugitive President Ashraf Ghani about how Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.
Saleh wrote on his Facebook page yesterday (Thursday) about the events leading up to the fall of the previous Afghan government that a day before the fall of Kabul, Hamdullah Moheb, national security adviser, and Fazl Mahmoud Fazli, Ashraf Ghani’s chief of staff, visited him. He was angry and dissatisfied with the non-declaration of national resistance. He had previously written that there would be a national resistance against the Taliban.
Saleh wrote about the details of the meeting: “Moheb and Fazli first asked him about his plans and finally advised that since there is no such thing as peace, steps should be taken to deprive the Taliban of their legitimacy.”
Ghani’s deputy continued: “He agreed with their opinion about the collapse of peace, and finally, through the words of two of Ashraf Ghani’s two senior advisers, he found out that the former president was seeking to leave Afghanistan.”
According to Saleh, he told Moheb and Fazli: “I will not leave my country in any way. I resist as much as I can. “If I can not do anything anywhere, I will build the roof of my house in Timani.”
Amrullah Saleh added that at this time, Hamdollah Moheb called someone and left the office. According to him, Moheb came minutes later and said that the Pakistanis had decided to execute several senior government officials, including Saleh, and move them around the city.
“I said yes, there is a possibility from the enemy,” Saleh wrote.
Amrullah Saleh’s memo continued that he was awake until Saturday morning to be aware of the situation and to quell the “insurgency of Taliban prisoners in Pul-e-Charkhi”, but that night the only person who answered his calls was Tutakhel, the Kabul police chief. And not even Moheb had answered his calls.
He also said on the day of the fall of the previous government that on Sunday (August 15th) he moved from his house in the Taimani area of Kabul to Panjshir province to take part in the formation of the resistance. He added that the narrative of resistance has taken shape and continues.
