Alwaght- Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani reportedly has fled the country for Uzbekistan while his car was escorted with vehicles filled with cash.
A Russian Embassy spokesman told Sputnik on Monday when "Ghani fled from Afghanistan four cars were full of money. They tried to put part of the money into a helicopter, but everything did not fit. And some of the money was left on the runway".
Afghan president left the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday to the Taliban militants who had toppled his government in a matter of weeks, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed.
The collapse of the Western-backed government in Kabul comes in the wake of Taliban blitzkrieg that began on August 6 and led to the capture of more than two dozen Afghan provinces by Sunday morning.
A ‘disgrace’
A politician from an eastern province, who wished to remain anonymous, described Ghani’s departure as a “disgrace”. The politician accused Ghani of “lying to the people this whole time” and of “keeping the Afghan people in the dark,” Aljazeera reported.
Early on Sunday, hours before Ghani’s departure, Atta Mohammad Noor, the powerful former commander of the northern province of Balkh, accused the government of a “big organised and cowardly plot”.
Noor, who had been a longtime critic of Ghani, was making reference to the growing belief that the fall of districts and provinces in recent weeks was part of some kind of untold plan that the government may have been on but kept from the people.
Last month, Ismail Khan, a former mujahideen commander from the western province of Herat, told Al Jazeera the same thing, claiming there was a “plot” behind the downfall of districts in the country.
