Soldiers from the Turkish Task Force in Afghanistan helped coordinate the evacuation of refugees.
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- Nargis Nehan stated that the U.S. withdrawal was “mismanagement” and “irresponsible”.
- Nehan said that the postponement of withdrawal would have allowed the Afghan government to reach a real agreement with the Taliban.
- She said that President Joe Biden could have postponed the withdrawal of U.S. troops to September 2022.
Nargis Nehan, a former cabinet member of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled Afghanistan to Norway a few days ago, condemned the US’s handling of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan on Tuesday.
“The United States has been in Afghanistan for 20 years, and staying for another year has no effect on them, at least economically and politically,” Nehan told AFP from Oslo. She was quarantined after arriving in Oslo last week. . .
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Nehan, who was once the acting minister of mining and petroleum, said that the withdrawal was “badly managed” and “irresponsible”. If the withdrawal was delayed, it could have been handled in an organized manner and a real agreement was reached between the government and the Taliban.
Nehan said:
President Joe Biden could have said that by late September 2022, I hoped that the Afghan army would be zero. But before that, I want to make sure that we reach a political solution between the government and the Taliban, and we also evacuated all our employees and local partners.
The former minister explained that she was frustrated by the lack of political support to implement reforms in the department in October 2019. She said that on the day the Taliban took over, her driver was shot and killed by an unidentified attacker and she fled. Arrived in Norway.
Since her driver survived the attack and was not a noticeable person, Nehan and her family considered her the intended target.
“I have worked in government and civil society, and I have always been a very outspoken activist and politician. So when you are very outspoken, you make enemies,” Nehan said.
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She also said that the way things have developed means that a lot of money and energy invested in the past two decades have been wasted.
Nehan said:
Basically, the investment of more than two trillion yuan and the blood made by the international community are mainly the blood of the Afghans. They just let it all pass, and we saw no one held them accountable, which is very disappointing.
In addition, Neihan fears that the sense of abandonment experienced by many Afghans will breed dissatisfaction with the international community and thus breed extremism.
“This is my fear…we will see more extremism coming from Afghanistan,” Nehan said, adding that it would “get rid of poverty and get rid of the betrayal and dissatisfaction they have.”
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