{"id":385587,"date":"2021-08-19T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=385587"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:40:19","slug":"taliban-i-fled-with-just-clothes-ex-afghanistan-president-ghani-breaks-silence-from-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=385587","title":{"rendered":"Taliban: I fled with just clothes &#8211; Ex-Afghanistan president, Ghani breaks silence from exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has denied that he fled his country to escape the Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani left the country as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday, August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for the first time from exile, Ghani confirmed he is in the United Arab Emirates and fled his country to prevent bloodshed after advice from officials.<\/p>\n<p>The former president also denied reports making the rounds that he took large sums of money in his helicopter as he departed the presidential palace.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports that Ghani fled with $169million in his cash-stuffed helicopter and has been given asylum in Dubai on \u2018humanitarian grounds\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a live Facebook broadcast, he said: \u201cWhat had happened 25 years ago in Afghanistan was going to take place again. That was why I fled because that needed to be avoided, a shameful development like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dignity of Afghanistan was important for me, and that was to be ensured, so I had to leave Afghanistan to prevent bloodshed, in order to make sure that a huge disaster (was) avoided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left on the advice of government officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKabul should not be turned into another Yemen or Syria overpower struggle so I was forced to leave,\u201d Ghani said.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani stressed that he left Kabul with just a waistcoat and some clothes, adding that the allegation is a personality assassination against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accusations are baseless lies. You can even ask customs officials \u2013 they are baseless,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani also mentioned that he hopes to return home to continue justice for Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the UAE so that disasters are avoided. I\u2019m in consultation with others until I (can) return so that I can continue my efforts for justice for the Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no intention to remain in exile,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has denied that he fled his country to escape the Taliban militants. Ghani left the country as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday, August 15. Speaking for the first time from exile, Ghani confirmed he is in the United Arab Emirates and fled his country to prevent bloodshed after advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,9075],"class_list":["post-385587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-afghanistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}