Afghanistan Collapse Doha led to collapse of Ashraf Ghani govt: Ex-Official
Kabul: Hamdullah Mohib, the former national security advisor for ex-president Ashraf Ghani, has said the signing of the U.S.-Taliban peace deal in February 2020 paved the way for the fall of Afghanistan into the Taliban’s hands.
When asked to explain why his government dissolved in a matter of days in August as Taliban forces swept across the country ahead of the U.S. withdrawal, Mohib told Voice of America blaming the three-year-long direct negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban.
The talks, said the former Afghan official, “absolutely sent a signal that the Taliban were returning.”
Mohib told VOA that former President Ashraf Ghani decided to flee the country after his government lost control over its security forces.
“It was the moment that the president left as his life was in danger,” he told VOA.
He said his government had "reliable" intelligence that the Taliban “planned to come and hang the president,” adding that similar intelligence was shared by “the U.S. and some other open sources.”
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