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Taliban “Looking Into” Video Showing Executions
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Taliban “Looking Into” Video Showing Executions

Kabul: The Taliban are "searching into" a video circulating on social media that looks to reveal its opponents executing captured participants of an Afghan rebel institution, a central authority spokesman stated Wednesday. The National Resistance Front (NRF), a nascent institution working particularly out of the Panjshir Valley, stated the video confirmed a number of its opponents being achieved, and accused the Taliban of "conflict crimes". The video, being shared extensively on social media, suggests organizations of fellows squatting on a hillside with their fingers tied at the back of their backs earlier than being shot with automated rifles with the aid of using Taliban opponents. The opponents may be heard shouting "Allahu Akbar", and a person is later heard saying "prevent it, preve...
Ashraf Ghani Said This On Decision To Flee Afghanistan In “Two Minutes”
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Ashraf Ghani Said This On Decision To Flee Afghanistan In “Two Minutes”

LONDON: Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday explained the Taliban victory marched in Kabul, said the decision was taken in the "minute" and that he did not know he would go to the country until he took off. Ghani told the BBC Radio 4 "Today" program that on the morning of August 15, 2021, the day Islamists took control of the capital and his own government was in disarray, he had "no feelings" that it would be his last day in Afghanistan. But in the afternoon security at the Presidential Palace had "collapsed," he said. "If I take a stand, they will all be killed, and they are unable to maintain me," said Ghani in an interview, carried out by former British defense chief of staff, General Nick Carter. His national security advisor, Hamdullah Mohib, "was really scared," Ghani s...