Ff Mr Ghani took a stand, “they will all be killed”. I think it was a great idea for him to leave the country.Ex-Afghan president describes moment he fled the Taliban
chief of presidential security came to him to say that if Mr Ghani took a stand, “they will all be killed”.
“He did not give me more than two minutes,” Mr Ghani said. “My instructions had been to prepare for departure for [the city of] Khost. He told me that Khost had fallen and so had Jalalabad.
“I did not know where we will go. Only when we took off, it became clear that we were leaving [Afghanistan]. So this really was sudden.”
Allegations that Mr Ghani had taken vast amounts of money also emerged
“I want to categorically state, I did not take any money out of the country,” he said, adding: “My style of life is known to everyone. What would I do with money?”
“Instead of a peace process, we got a withdrawal process,” Mr Ghani said. The way the deal was done, Mr Ghani added, “erased us”.
he added: “My life work has been destroyed. My values had been trampled on. And I have been made a scapegoat.”
