Didn't steal money, Ghani vows to return to Afghanistan

Self exiled formenr Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani has broken his silence, In a video message,  Ghani on Wednesday said he supports talks between the Taliban and top former officials, and denied allegations that he transferred large sums of money out of the country before fleeing to the United Arab Emirates."I had no intention of remaining in exile in the Gulf nation and was "in talks" to return home". he said.

In a video message he posted on Facebook, Ashraf Ghani said he would have witnessed violence had he chosen to remain in Kabul. He also thanked Afghan defence forces for putting up a fight against the Taliban. In what can be seen as a response to US President Joe Biden and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg's remarks, Ghani said, "I should not be judged by those who do not know all of the details."  Ashraf Ghani also mentioned that the Afghan government's negotiations with Taliban did not reach any conclusion. "It is our failure," he said.

"I was expelled from Afghanistan in such a way that I didn't even get the chance to take my slippers off my feet and pull on my boots," he added, noting that he had arrived in the Emirates "empty-handed". He claimed that the Taliban had entered Kabul despite an agreement not to do so. Had I stayed there, an elected president of Afghanistan would have been hanged again right before the Afghans' own eyes, he said. The first time the Taliban seized Kabul, when they established their regime in 1996, they dragged former communist president Mohammed Najibullah from a United Nations office where he had been sheltering, and hanged him in a public street after torturing him.