TALIBAN zealots pose with their weapons yesterday — telling the world they now rule Afghanistan. The chillingly symbolic snap was taken in the former British police training HQ in Kabul. On the tab…
But President Biden’s withdrawal of forces from the country “betrayed all the efforts made by UK and US troops”.The Taliban’s takeover of AfghanistanThe last US take-off ends a trillion-dollar, 20-year war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and finishes as it began, with the Taliban in power.And as the Taliban united, the allies were divided in retreat.
The youngest innocent victim was a two-year-old girl, according to a brother of one of those killed. The Taliban condemned the strike.Taliban officials have signalled they want to rule differently to his one-eyed predecessor Mullah Omar.He outlawed music and television, banned girls’ education, hosted al-Qaeda and had women stoned to death for adultery before he was toppled in 2001.
Some have Pakistani mobile numbers — a tell-tale sign of time in madrassas on the far side of the lawless borders. Qasi Ali, a senior commander who had commandeered the Afghan Police Academy in the eastern outskirts of Kabul, said: “I don’t know why people are scared. The Taliban have brought security.He pointed to the computer, still showing the feeds from the CCTV cameras, and fridges and office furniture that could all have found homes in Kabul’s black market.
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