Ex-Afghan President Apologises For Fleeing As China Offers Country $31m Aid
Former Afghan president,Ashraf Ghani,has apologised to the people of Afghanistan after fleeing to take refuge in the United Arab Emirates.
Mr Ghani abruptly left Afganistan as Taliban militant advanced on the capital on 15 August.
He said he had not intended to abandon his people but"it was the only way".
"Leaving Kabul was the most defficult decision of my life",he said,adding that he was sorry he"could not make it and different".
In a statement shared on Twitter on Wednesday,Mr Ghani said he had no choice but to leave the country in other to avoid widespread conflict.
"I left at the urging of the palace security,who advised me that to stay risked setting off the same street-to-street fighting the city had suffered during the civil war of the 1990s",he wrote,adding that he did so to"save Kabul and her six million citizens".
He said he had devoted 20 years to helping Afganistan become a"democratic,prosperous and sovereign state".
Mr Ghani added that he had "deep and profound regret that my own chapter ended in similar tragedy to my predecessors".
The 72 year old former president,who has faced intense criticism from other Afgan politicians for leaving the country,said he would address the"event leading up to my departure" in the near future.
In a live Facebook address on 18 August,Mr Ghani said he was "force" to leave Afganistan by his security team because "there was a real chance that i would be captured and killed".
He said that when the Taliban entered the presidential palace in Kabul, "they started looking for me from room to room".
He also again denied the "baseless"allagation that he had travelled to the UAE with about $169m
"What the US did in Afganistan over the past two decades is a textbook example which shows us the consequences of wanton military intervention and attempts to impose one's own ideology and values on others",said foreign Ministry spokesperson,Wang Wenbin.
Taliban official have described China as Afganistan's most important partner and pinned hopes on Chinese investment and support to rebuild the war-torn country.
Beijing has made serious efforts to establish good relations with the Taliban.
Even before the Taliban took control of Afganistan,China invited representatives of the group over for talks in july, offering economic support for Afaganistan but also stressing that the country should not be used as a staging point for terrorists.
However,Beijing has struggled to sell this cautious alliance to some part of the Chinese public that are repulsed by the Taliban.
BBC
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