Colonel Hanif Rezai refutes the blame placed upon the Afghan army by Joe Biden for the Taliban's return, telling Sky News the militants' resurgence is down to the weakness of the Afghan leadership and army corruption.
He puts the turning point in the north to the visit of then President Ashraf Ghani to Mazar-i-Sharif on 11 August.Colonel Rezai and his family are in hiding outside of Afghanistan
Three days later, Mazar-i-Sharif, the last urban hold-out in northern Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban.The former president has denied reports he left with huge amounts of cash, but Colonel Rezai does not believe it. Colonel Rezai details how even after the withdrawal of international forces, the contents they left behind were systematically sold and distributed, with just a few individuals pocketing the proceeds.
In Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Valley to the northeast of Kabul, Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghanistan's famous resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, is promising a new Mujahideen onslaught on the Taliban.
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