KABUL, Aug 14 — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said today the remobilisation of the country’s armed forces was a “top priority”, as Taliban fighters inched closer to the capital after routing the country’s defences over the past week. The president gave no hint he would resign or take...
KABUL, Aug 14 — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said today the remobilisation of the country’s armed forces was a “top priority”, as Taliban fighters inched closer to the capital after routing the country’s defences over the past week.
But Ghani offered few specifics on what his administration was planning as the government’s control over Afghanistan has all but collapsed in recent days. Heaving fighting was also reported around Mazar-i-Sharif, an isolated holdout in the north where warlord and former vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum had gathered his virulently anti-Taliban militia.
A host of European countries -- including Britain, Germany, Denmark and Spain — all announced the withdrawal of personnel from their respective embassies yesterday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply disturbed” by accounts of poor treatment of women in areas seized by the Taliban, who imposed an ultra-austere brand of Islam on Afghanistan during their 1996-2001 rule.
“Kabul is not right now in an imminent threat environment,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Friday, while acknowledging that Taliban fighters were “trying to isolate” the city.
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