The top of Afghanistan’s central bank has fled Kabul, questioned the loyalty of Afghan safety forces and blamed President Ashraf Ghani and his inexperienced advisors for the nation’s swift and chaotic fall to the Taliban.
Taking to a Twitter handle, Acting Governor Ajmal Ahmady said that U.S. dollar supplies were dwindling and described escaping the capital on a military flight. He said, on Sunday I began work. Reports throughout morning were increasingly worrisome. I left the bank and left deputies in charge. Felt terrible about leaving staff." He added, "It did not have to end this way. I am disgusted by the lack of any planning by Afghan leadership. Saw at airport them leave without informing others."
Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as Taliban militants entered Kabul virtually unopposed. Their arrival, barely a week after they captured faraway provincial capital Zaranj, was disorienting, said Ahmady, 43. He was appointed performing governor of Afghanistan’s central financial institution simply over a 12 months in the past, having beforehand labored on the U.S. Treasury, the World Financial institution and in personal fairness, based on a brief biography posted on an authorities web site.
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