Ghani mysteriously fled to United Arab Emirates after Taliban militants retook Afghanistan’s capital, almost two decades, last Sunday. On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates government said in a statement that he is in the country from where he posted the message on social media.

In the video, he reiterated that he left the country to avoid bloodshed. “I also wanted to prevent Afghanistan from becoming like Syria and Yemen, and avert dreadful disaster of ‘being hanged’ had he remained in office. I had the country with any money,” he said in the video.

Ghani served as President of Afghanistan between September 2014 and August 2021. On 15 August 2021, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and he fled the country to the United Arab Emirates. Ghani was first elected on 20 September 2014 and was re-elected on 28 September in the 2019 presidential election. He was announced the winner after a protracted process in February 2020 and was sworn in for a second term on 9 March 2020. An anthropologist by education, he previously served as Minister of Finance and the Chancellor of Kabul University.

Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002, Ghani was a professor of anthropology at numerous institutions (mostly Johns Hopkins University), and later started working with the World Bank. As the Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan’s attempted economic recovery after the collapse of the Taliban government.

He is the co-founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness, an organization set up in 2005 to improve the ability of states to serve their citizens. In 2005 he gave a TED talk, in which he discussed how to rebuild a broken state such as Afghanistan.

He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, an independent initiative hosted by the United Nations Development Programme. In 2013 he was ranked 50th in an online poll to name the world’s top 100 intellectuals conducted by Foreign Policy magazine and second in a similar poll run by Prospect magazine.

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As per updates from news agency Reuters, Karzai was accompanied by the old government’s main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah in the meeting, said the Taliban official, who declined to be identified. He gave no more details.

The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of the most deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.

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Videos and images went viral from Afghanistan that people desperately attempting to leave Kabul rushing toward a C-17 and clinging to its side.

A separate video showed what appeared to be two people falling from a military plane as it flew out of Kabul In a statement, the Air Force said that a C-17 aircraft landed at Kabul’s airport on Monday and was surrounded by hundreds of Afghan civilians,” Reuters report said that Air Force’s office of Special Investigation was reviewing information about the aircraft and the “loss of civilian lives- to include video documentation and the source of social media posts.

“Faced with a rapidly deteriorating security situation around the aircraft, the C-17 crew decided to depart the airfield as quickly as possible,” Air force spokesperson said in a statement.

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The terror group is now forcing women to get married to its terrorists and executing captured soldiers and unprovoked attacks in civilians by the Taliban, a media report said.

The city was Taliban’s stronghold and was strategically important for the government.

Militants occupied the area after a heavy clash with local authorities in Kandahar city,” a local government official said. Kandahar is the latest city to fall, after Herat and Ghazni.

Meanwhile, the United States has assured the local government to send about 3,000 troops back into Afghanistan to help evacuate staff from the American embassy. The UK is deploying about 600 troops on a short term basis to provide support to British nationals leaving the country.

The Taliban have focussed their offensive on the north, a region they never fully controlled during their 1996-2001 rule, and the heartland of Northern Alliance forces who marched into Kabul with U.S. support in 2001, the Reuters agency said adding that the Taliban also claimed to have captured Lashkar Gah in the south and Qala-e-Naw in the northwest

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