Left Afghanistan to avoid bloodshed: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

TIL Desk/World/Kabul/ Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said that he left the country in order to avoid “bloodshed” as Kabul fell to the Taliban and terrorists entered the Afghanistan presidential palace. In his first comments after he left Afghanistan, Ghani, in a Facebook post, said that from now on, the Taliban will be responsible for the “honour, wealth and preservation” of Afghanistan’s people.

“In order to avoid bleeding flood, I thought it was best to get out. The Taliban have won judgment of sword and guns and now they’re responsible for protecting countrymen’s honour, wealth and self-esteem…Never in history has dry power given legitimacy to anyone and won’t give it to them,” Ghani said.

Ghani said he was faced with a “hard choice” between the “armed Taliban” or “leaving the dear country that I dedicated my life to protecting the past 20 years”. He added that had he not left the country, the result would have been a big human disaster in this 6 million city. “If left unchecked, countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be devastated, resulting in a major humanitarian catastrophe in the six-million-strong city,” he said.