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#Ashraf Ghani

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Amrullah Saleh
Amrullah Saleh

“I call on Ashraf Ghani to release the tapes ( esp. Jul/Aug) of the conversations with Khalilzad [Zalmay Khalilzad] and other relevant foreign diplomats on peace process to counter the growing propaganda that it was and is all the Afghan fault. I know these tapes exist & hope you have them. This is the time.”

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Former Vice-President of Afghanistan
02 Nov 2021 4 1
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Moeed Yusuf
Moeed Yusuf

“Pakistan has been the victim of the war in terror over the past two decades and has been the only country that was speaking the truth. Pakistan had told Nato and the US not to try to achieve a military victory, but that the allied forces had aimed for a total triumph. We said they live in a bubble and don't have the pulse of the people and it was corrupt. We cannot signal to the Afghans that the only ones that matter are those that are fortunate enough to be associated with western and international organisations. If the world repeats the mistakes of the 90s, the results will not be better than last time. If we again find the easy path and say, 'We are done and out of here,' the international legitimacy of the western world will disappear in one second. We will have a humanitarian crisis, we will have instability and we will have a security vacuum that terrorists may fill, again targeting Pakistan first and the western world second. We were never asked when the deadlines for troop withdrawal were agreed. We were talking about a 'responsible withdrawal', which means political settlement before the withdrawal. he west of turning Pakistan into a scapegoat, when the real problems on the ground - a lack of trust, corruption, an army not able to stand up - were completely ignored. The result is an embarrassment for everyone, a capitulation, an army with no will to fight, and President Ghani fleeing away … The world should stand up now and say we will learn lessons, something has gone horribly wrong and we will not look for scapegoats.”

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National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
26 Aug 2021 6 2
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Farhad Akbari
Farhad Akbari

“If they [Taliban] continue with their monopolization of power like Ashraf Ghani and distribute the power to the certain provinces and do not respect other provinces and the people, there is possibility of a civil war.”

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Political activist
21 Aug 2021 3 4
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Abdul Basit
Abdul Basit

“First, there was widespread corruption in Afghanistan's defence and interior ministries where funds, ammunition and food deliveries were stolen before reaching the soldiers on the ground. The ammunition and other equipment were sold on the black market, eventually ending up in the Taliban's hands. Second, the embezzlement and corruption undermined morale within the ranks of the army. Third, there was also no ideological cohesion within the army or a sense of national duty and belonging. In fact, there was significant mistrust towards the country's political leadership. No Afghan soldier was ready to fight and die to defend President Ashraf Ghani or the government. Fourth, continuous political interference and reshuffling of office holders as high as interior and defence ministers, governors and police chiefs also affected the ANDSF's [Afghan National Defence Security Forces] battlefield performance. Fifth, the Taliban's smart military strategy of taking control of major border crossings, main highways and besieging the big cities crippled Kabul's ability to send reinforcements and supplies. Finally, despite receiving years of training and billions of dollars worth of equipment, the ANDSF never developed the capacity to stand on its own. In fact, it was entirely dependent on the US and NATO troops to protect urban areas.”

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Research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore
17 Aug 2021 8 3
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Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Ibrahim Al-Marashi

“Indeed, despite the many fundamental differences between the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, military failures of both states were caused by the same three factors. First, the United States sought to impose the rigid, hierarchical American military doctrine on both armies, without considering the differences in the Afghan and Iraqi cultural contexts. Second, these enfeebled armies had to face off against either ISIL or the Taliban - violent non-state actors which possess a stronger “asabiyya” (group solidarity) than them. Third, there were weak leaders both in Kabul and Baghdad - former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Iraq and recently departed President Ashraf Ghani in Afghanistan - resulting in ineffective administrations and faltering governance. Alongside the US, these leaders allowed networks of patronage and corruption to take root in their countries' militaries during their respective rebuilding processes, enabling the eventual success of ISIL and the Taliban.”

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Associate professor at the Department of History, California State University, San Marcos
17 Aug 2021 7 3
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Michael McKinley
Michael McKinley

“We misread the Taliban when we were fighting them; we also misread their more recent pledge to negotiate peace as they shadow-boxed in Doha with the Ghani [Ashraf Ghani] government after reaching agreement with the United States on the withdrawal timetable. They never had any intention of reaching a settlement. (The notion that the Taliban have changed seems even more naïve now, given the disturbing images emerging from the current takeover.) Yet that intention was in some ways mirrored by the United States: the ultimate goal of American negotiators was to create the conditions for an orderly U.S. withdrawal. The Taliban always knew that.”

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in 2014–16
16 Aug 2021 5 4
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Haroun Rahimi
Haroun Rahimi

“He's not in control anymore, and it's not about President Ghani [Ashraf Ghani] anymore. It's about making the transition as bloodlessly, orderly and as swiftly as possible. The fight is at the doors of Kabul. The reporting shows Kabul is being encircled. Time is not on the government's side.”

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Assistant professor of law at the American University of Afghanistan
14 Aug 2021 3 3
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James Bays
James Bays

“We have not heard a detailed plan … I've spoken to many members of the international community and diplomats here [Kabul], who are concerned. They believe the president [Ashraf Ghani] really does need to set out a plan - not only a plan in order to execute it, to solve the military problems on the ground, but also because they say the Afghan people need to hear that he has a plan because morale is slumping.”

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Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor reporting from Kabul
02 Aug 2021 2 3
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