- The Taliban said the United States is responsible for the chaos at Kabul Airport.
- With the organization coming to power, thousands of Afghans are trying to flee.
- Desperate scenes appeared around the airport, and seven people died.
The Taliban blamed the United States for the chaotic evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans and foreigners from Kabul on Sunday, a week after the hardline Islamic group returned to power with a swift victory that shocked the world.
The United States has warned of security threats, and the European Union has admitted that it is “impossible” to evacuate all people at risk from the Taliban. The Taliban vowed to adopt a more moderate version of the brutal rule from 1996 to 2001.
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However, the terrified Afghans continued to try to escape, adding to the chaos at Kabul Airport. The United States and its allies have been unable to cope with the large numbers of people trying to take evacuation flights.
Taliban official Amir Khan Mutaki said: “With all its power and facilities…the United States has failed to bring order to the airport. There is peace and calm throughout the country, but only Kabul Airport is in chaos.”
The British Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that seven people had died in the crowd, but did not provide more details.
Desperate scene
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A reporter from a group of fleeing media workers and academics who had the honor to arrive at the airport on Sunday described the desperate scene of people crowding their buses on their way to the station.
The reporter said: “They showed us their passports and yelled’Bring us…please bring us’.”
“The Taliban fighters in the truck in front of us had to shoot into the air to get them to leave.”
The distressing video has appeared, babies and children are passed to soldiers through barbed wire, while men cling to the outside of the plane about to take off.
The Air Mobility Command wrote on Twitter that during the evacuation, an Afghan woman gave birth on a US Air Force plane and gave birth to a woman in the cargo hold of the plane shortly after landing on a base in Germany. infant.
The Afghan crisis has triggered increasing criticism of the United States and its Western allies. The United States has been forced to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan this year due to the government and security forces’ efforts to contain the escalating violence of the Taliban.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that G7 leaders will discuss the situation at a virtual summit on Tuesday.
Johnson said on Twitter: “It is vital that the international community work together to ensure a safe evacuation, prevent humanitarian crises, and support the Afghan people to achieve the results of the past 20 years.”
As the terrible evacuation continued, US President Joe Biden described it as “one of the largest and most difficult airlifts in history.”
The United States, with thousands of soldiers trying to ensure the safety of Kabul Airport, has set a deadline to complete the evacuation by August 31.
Potential security threat
On Sunday, the Department of Defense sought help from several major airlines to transport people flying to bases in the U.S. Gulf and Europe back to the United States.
According to the Biden administration, as many as 15,000 Americans and 50,000 to 60,000 Afghan allies need to be evacuated. The United States warned its citizens to stay away from the airport on the grounds of potential security threats unless told to go there.
Countless others feared the Taliban’s repression or retaliatory attacks and tried to flee.
The head of EU foreign policy Jose Puborel gave a bleak assessment of whether the airlift will be successful.
“From now to the end of this month, they want to evacuate 60,000 people. This is mathematically impossible,” he said.
Borrell added that “we have complained to the Americans” that their airport security check is too strict, preventing Afghans working for Europeans from trying to enter.
At the same time, the Taliban have been focusing on forming a government.
An official said that the co-founder of the organization Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar) has flown to Kabul and plans to meet with jihadist leaders, elders and politicians.
Among them are the leaders of the Haqqani Network, a terrorist organization designated by the United States, whose leadership offers millions of dollars in rewards.
However, some former government troops have since gathered in the Panjshir Valley in northern Kabul, which has long been known as an anti-Taliban fortress.
The Taliban said on their Arabic Twitter account on Sunday that they were sending hundreds of fighters to the valley after “local government officials refused to hand over peacefully.”
Islamists “assembled troops near the entrance to Panjshir,” Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who had taken refuge in the area, wrote on Twitter.
One of the leaders of the Panjshir Movement, known as the National Resistance Front, is the son of the famous anti-Taliban commander Ahmed Shah Masood.
NRF spokesperson Ali Maisam Nazary told AFP in an interview with Agence France-Presse that NRF has prepared for a “prolonged conflict” but is still seeking negotiations with the Taliban on an inclusive government.
“The condition for reaching a peace agreement with the Taliban is decentralization, which is a system that ensures social justice, equality, rights and freedom for all.”
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