New Delhi: According to media reports, Hashmat Ghani Ahmedzai, brother of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, has joined the Taliban and has announced his support to the group.
This came after Ashraf Ghani, who took refuge in the UAE, held talks to return to Afghanistan as he denied allegations that he had left a suitcase full of cash from Kabul.
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The latest report on Saturday said the head of the Grand Council of Kuchis, Hashmat Ghani Ahmedzai, announced his support for the Taliban in the presence of leader Khalil-ur-Rahman and religious scholar Mufti Mahmood Zakir.
A purported video of the meeting has also surfaced on social media.
The Taliban had earlier surrounded the Afghan capital and Ghani, who left Kabul on Sunday, said he was in talks to return to the country. As Al Jazeera reports, he also said that the allegations that he eloped with a suitcase of cash were “completely baseless”, all of which were “political and personality assassination”.
Following Ghani’s exit, the Russian embassy in Kabul claimed on Monday that Ghani had left Kabul with four cars and a helicopter loaded with cash.
“As for the fall of the regime, it is most clearly characterized by the way Ghani fled Afghanistan: four cars were full of money, he tried to put part of the money into the helicopter, but everything did not fit. And some more Some of that money was left on the runway”, Sputnik quoted Russian diplomatic mission spokesman Nikita Ishenko as saying.
In response to the claims, Ghani said, “I was forced to leave Afghanistan with a set of traditional clothing, a vest and the sandals I was wearing,” the New York Post reported.
In a video posted on Facebook on Wednesday, Ghani argued that he had to leave the country to avoid bloodshed and supported recent talks between the terrorist group and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai to stabilize the country.
Meanwhile, the Taliban say they are working to unveil a new governance structure for Afghanistan in the next few weeks. “Legal, religious and foreign policy experts in the Taliban are aiming to introduce a new governance structure in the next few weeks,” a spokesman for the Islamist movement told Reuters on Saturday.
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