Abu Dhabi: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country before the Taliban occupation in Afghanistan, is in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). He has been given asylum by the UAE. This has been confirmed by the UAE Government.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family to the country on humanitarian grounds.
The United Arab Emirates says it has accepted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his family for humanitarian considerations. Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban approached Kabul. The statement carried by the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency on Wednesday did not say where Ghani was in the country. It quoted the country’s Foreign Ministry in a one-sentence statement.
At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, Reuters quoted two witnesses and a former police official as saying. The witnesses said the deaths took place when local residents tried to install Afghanistan’s national flag at a square in the city, some 150 km (90 miles) to the east of Kabul.
A Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network militant group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a government. 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.
