Ashraf Ghani and his family are in the United Arab Emirates after the former Afghan president fled the country on Sunday following Taliban's capture of Kabul — UAE Foreign Ministry confirms
The United Arab Emirates says it has accepted Ashraf Ghani and his family on “humanitarian" grounds.Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state's foreign ministry has said, after he left as Taliban fighters seized control.
The statement carried by the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency on Wednesday did not say where Ghani was in the country. In a Facebook post, Ghani said the "Taliban have won" and that he fled to avoid a "flood of bloodshed". This was not the first time that the oil-rich Gulf country opened its arms to former leaders and their relatives, now persona non grata in their country.
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