inside Afghanistan leadership

 8-18-21 

     Zahir Aghbar. (Photo: Eurasianet)  Afghanistan’s ambassador to Tajikistan, Zahir Aghbar, interviewed

 I don't think the Taliban should be trusted.  When the hero of Afghanistan, [Ahmed] Shah Massoud [the Northern Alliance leader murdered in Takhar Province on September 9, 2001] appealed to the Taliban and called for a halt to fighting, they said that as long as there were foreigners in Afghanistan, they would keep fighting.  Well, there are no foreigners now, what do they have to fight for? The Taliban said they would not fight to capture power. And here they are fighting for the sake of power.

The Taliban say they will defend the rights of women and human rights.  Let them show it in practice.  If they can show it, they will be victorious.  If they do not show it, then they should know that everyone will unite against them.

What is more, if the Taliban offer haven to terrorist groups from neighboring countries, then what kind of border security can we talk about?  There are many foreign terrorists among the Taliban at this time.

https://eurasianet.org/interview-afghanistans-ambassador-to-tajikistan-rejects-taliban-rule

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  Days after Afghan President

Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul…(he and) Afghanistan’s first lady Rula Ghani, were ensconced in relative luxury in the United Arab Emirates amid reports he had spirited tens of millions of dollars out of Afghanistan when they fled on Aug. 15.

  Ghani’s children Tarek and his sister have spent their lives connected to elites within the Democratic Party and owe their education and, in part, livelihoods to billionaire Democratic donors--the same power players who have bankrolled their father throughout his career as a technocrat at the World Bank and in leadership positions in his native Afghanistan.

  Ashraf, 72, became Afghanistan’s president in 2014, but before that he raked in hundreds of thousands annually as chair of the Institute for State Effectiveness, a Washington, DC, nonprofit he co-founded in 2007.  The group works to “develop integrated approaches to state building” and around 2007 received a $40 million grant from the Clinton Global Initiative, the non-profit founded by the former president.

His wife, Rula, 73, is co-chair of the Afghan Women’s Council at Georgetown University, alongside former US first ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.  Ashraf’s group has also been supported by grants from the Open Society Foundations, set up by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has donated billions to liberal causes around the world.

Ahsraf’s connections to the billionaire and the Clintons opened doors for his children in elite academic and political circles, a political observer who knows the family told The NY Post.  https://nypost.com/2021/08/28/deposed-afghan-president-ghanis-children-live-luxe-lives-in-us/

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