Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, has left the country.

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani leaves the country

As the Taliban slowly encroaches the country, Ghani just vanished and abandoned his people

By Edward Era Barbacena

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the war-torn country on Sunday as Taliban militants took over the presidential palace in Kabul — with Ghani later explaining that he took off to avoid clashes with the insurgents.

Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, referred to Ashraf Ghani as the “former president” and said he had left the country.

“The former president of Afghanistan left Afghanistan, leaving the country in this difficult situation,” Abdullah said. “God should hold him accountable.”

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar
on August 15, 2021

In his first comments since fleeing the country, Ghani wrote on Facebook that he left to prevent further bloodshed.

“If there were still countless countrymen martyred and they would face the destruction and destruction of Kabul city, the result would have been a big human disaster in this six million city,” he wrote, according to the Guardian. “The Taliban have made it to remove me, they are here to attack all Kabul and the people of Kabul. In order to avoid the bleeding flood, I thought it was best to get out.”