Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Tajikistan, Mohammad Zahir Agbar claimed that President Ashraf Ghani had taken $169 million with him when he fled Afghanistan and that he should be arrested and the wealth of the Afghan nation be restored.
According to the reports while speaking at a news conference in Dushanbe Agbar called Ghani’s escape a betrayal of the state and the nation and claimed that he had taken $169 million. He later announced that Amrullah Saleh, Ashraf Ghani’s first deputy, was legally the President of Afghanistan now.
He further said – “Ashraf Ghani handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban. We had more than 350,000 equipped troops, experienced military personnel, and they did not fight the Taliban. And we saw this in part in the northern regions of Afghanistan that border Tajikistan. There are more than 20 districts there. And they went over to the Taliban without mounting any resistance. I think Ghani had a prior agreement with the Taliban. He already had a plan for betrayal in his head. He abandoned his supporters and betrayed the people of Afghanistan.”
Further, he added “I don’t think that any government is going to put up with militants from their country being in Afghanistan and operating under the Taliban’s protection. Afghanistan should not be a country that poses a threat to the neighbouring countries. What is more, if the Taliban offer a haven to terrorist groups from neighbouring countries, what kind of border security can we talk about? There are many foreign terrorists among the Taliban at this time.”
President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan on August 15 before the Taliban entered Kabul.
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