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The Taliban said the war in Afghanistan ended after terrorists took control of the Presidential Palace in Kabul when the US troops departed and Western countries rushed on Monday to evacuate their citizens.
President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on Sunday when Islamic terrorists entered the city, said he wanted to avoid bloodshed, while hundreds of Afghan residents were desperate to leave the flooded Kabul Airport.
Today is a pleasant day for Afghan people and Mujahideen. They have witnessed the results of their efforts and their sacrifice for 20 years,” Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Taliban Political Office, told Al Jazeera TV.
Naeem said the type and form of a new regime in Afghanistan will soon be clarified, adding that the Taliban does not want to live separately and call for peaceful international relations.
We have achieved what we are looking for, which is the freedom of our country and the independence of our people,” he said. “We will not allow anyone to use our land to target anyone, and we don’t want to hurt others.”
In Washington, opponents of President Joe Biden’s decision to end the Longest American war, launched after the attack on September 11, 2001, said the chaos was caused by leadership failure.
American diplomats were flown by helicopters to the airport from their embassies in the Wazir Akbar Khan district who were fortified as Afghan troops, were trained for years and were equipped by the United States and others at a cost of billions of dollars, merged.
A spokesman for the US Department of State said on Monday morning that almost all embassy personnel, including Ambassador Ross Wilson, were at the airport and the American flag had been deployed and expelled from the embassy complex.
At Kabul Airport, hundreds of Afghan residents were waiting for flights, some luggage that dragged the runway in the dark, while women and children sleeping near the security corridor.
A source at the airport said that some quarrels broke out among people who could not get a place because the departure was stopped.
1TV local television reported that many explosions were heard in the capital after dark, but the city was mostly quiet during the day on Sunday.
The emergency aid group said 80 injured people had been taken to their hospital in Kabul, who were in capacity, and that they only accepted people with life-threatening injuries.
In a Facebook post, Ghani said he had left the country to avoid clashes with the Taliban which would endanger millions of Kabul residents.
He did not say where he was and unclear where he headed or how exactly the power would be transferred after the lightning sweeping the Taliban across Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera previously showed a recording of what he said was the Taliban Commander at the President’s Palace with dozens of armed fighters.
Some local social media users in Kabul branded Ghani a coward because he left them in chaos. Tweet from the verified account of the Afghan Embassy in India said: “We all bang our heads because of shame.”
Many Afghan citizens are afraid that the Taliban will return to the past practices in the imposition of their sharia, or Islamic religious law. During their 1996-2001 rules, women cannot work and punish such as sharpening, whipping and hanging managed.
Terrorists try to project a more moderate face, promise to respect women’s rights and protect foreigners and Afghanists.
We are ready to dialogue with all Afghan characters and will guarantee that they are needed,” Naeem told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV.
Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres urged the Taliban and all other parties to carry out the best restraint, and expressed special concern about the future of women and girls in Afghanistan.
Pentagon endorsed 1,000 other troops to help evacuate US and Afghan citizens who worked for them, said a US official.
