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...This is a catastrophe of choice, created by US president Joe Biden’s reckless decision to withdraw, and compounded by Afghan premier Ashraf Ghani’s decision to flee the country in haste....
...I half expect that,” said Saad Mohseni, chair and chief executive of Moby Group, who launched Tolo News in 2004....
...The Afghan government collapsed after President Ashraf Ghani fled his nation at the weekend....
...And I’ve buried the medal that I received from former president Ashraf Ghani after being named journalist of the year....
...Doctors in regional clinics where some of the wounded were taken fled their premises in fear, leaving the patients on their own. ‘’The entire system has broken…no doctors, no nurses,’’ Saad Mukhtar, director...
...Ashraf Ghani, the new president, appears more energetic and effective than Mr Karzai....
...Khalid’s warning looked especially prescient as Afghanistan’s June 14 presidential election run-off between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai lurched to the brink of collapse this month, amid allegations...
...Thus, it brought down a government it all but controlled in March last year by refusing to extend the mandate of Major General Ashraf Rifi, head of the Lebanese ISF, who is close to the Hariris and led the...
...Additional reporting by Amina Ashraf...
...Essentially, Hizbollah, the Iran-backed paramilitaries whose power comfortably exceeds that of the state, objected to keeping Ashraf Rifi as chief of the Internal Security Forces, the one security agency...
...Sunday that the country’s prosecutor-general has frozen the financial assets of top Brotherhood officials including spiritual leader Mohamed Badie, Khairat al-Shater, the organisation’s number two, and Saad...
...The main candidates, Mr Abdullah, former foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, have been more emollient towards the west than Mr Karzai, once Washington’s man...
...“The single biggest challenge for us is political transition,” says Saad Mohseni, the Afghan media entrepreneur and owner of television stations....
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