Guwahati News Desk: After fleeing from Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani who was welcomed by the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, posted his first message on Facebook, in an attempt to clarify several things.
Through a video message in Facebook, Ghani tried to clarify several allegations made on him, including the one about him leaving Kabul with four cars and a helicopter stuffed with cash.
In the video, Ghani referred to these claims as “baseless” and asserted that he was forced to leave in order to avoid bloodshed. Ghani said, “Do not believe whoever tells you that your president sold you out and fled for his own advantage and to save his own life…These accusations are baseless… and I strongly reject them.”
He went ahead and said that he did not even have the time to change his shoes and left Kabul with the sandals that he was wearing at the Presidential palace on Sunday. He said, “I was expelled from Afghanistan in such a way that I didn’t even get the chance to take my slippers off my feet and pull on my boots.”
Ghani informed that he was expelled from Afghanistan and so, if he had stayed in Kabul, he would have been surely hanged. He said, “Had I stayed there, an elected president of Afghanistan would have been hanged again right before the Afghans’ own eyes.”
Ghani also informed that the Taliban had entered Kabul despite an agreement not to do so.
Meanwhile, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation confirmed that the UAE welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on “humanitarian grounds”, after he left Kabul on Sunday.
Moreover, after Ghani expressed about him wanting to return to Afghanistan, the United States said it did not see Ashraf Ghani as a player in Afghanistan, to which the Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, said, “He is no longer a figure in Afghanistan.”