08/15/2021 18:19
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/15/2021 6:19 PM
Sources from the Argentine Foreign Ministry confirmed to
Clarín
that in
Kabul
, the capital of Afghanistan,
there are no Argentines
who have been trapped by the Taliban offensive that took power.
Argentina does not have an ambassador in that country and the Government confirmed that
no citizen of our country
currently
resides
in Kabul.
In addition, official sources
ruled out
that there are currently Argentines in that city for
tourism or for commercial reasons
.
The Argentine representation in Afghan lands is not in that land, but in neighboring Pakistan, where
Ambassador Leopoldo Francisco Sahores is
, who serves as concurrent diplomatic representation in Afghanistan as well as other states in the Asian region, with the express consent of all. the parts.
An unstoppable offense
This Sunday, the Taliban
entered Kabul and clamored for "victory"
from the government palace, hours after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad in the dramatic
epilogue of 20 years of foreign military intervention
and a three-month insurgent blitzkrieg offensive. .
"The Taliban won," Ghani declared on Facebook, assuring that he
left the country
to avoid a "bloodbath", since "countless patriots would have been martyred and Kabul destroyed" if he had stayed.
"Military units from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan entered the city of Kabul to ensure security," insurgent spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted.
"His progress continues normally," he
added.
The Taliban took the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.
AP Photo.
At night, Afghan television broadcast images of Afghan fighters inside the palace and crying out "victory."
"
Our country has been liberated
and the mujahideen are victorious in Afghanistan," a militant told the
Al Jazeera
news channel
from the presidential palace.
As previously indicated by three high-ranking Taliban officials to the AFP agency, a meeting was held in the palace on the security situation in the capital.
As the day progressed,
panic gripped the Afghan capital
.
Stores closed and huge traffic jams formed, and thousands of police and other members of the security forces left their posts and their uniforms.
In most of the banks you could see a large agglomeration, with people looking to withdraw their money while there was time.
Videos
were posted
on
social media
showing groups of heavily armed Taliban fighters patrolling large cities, holding white flags and greeting the population.
Biden's help
US President Joe Biden decided on Sunday to send an
additional 1,000 troops to Kabul
to ensure the
evacuation of thousands of
American and Afghan
civilians
, a Pentagon official said after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.
A total of
6,000 US soldiers
should arrive in the Afghan capital "in the next few days," said the official, who requested anonymity, as images of panic at the Kabul airport flourished on social media.
In 10 days, the radical Islamist movement, which had started an offensive in May
taking advantage of the start of the withdrawal
of US and foreign troops, took control of almost the entire country.
Now, the insurgents are at the gates of power,
twenty years after
being expelled by a coalition led by Washington, following their refusal to hand over Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaida, after the attacks of September 11 in United States.
The defeat is total for both the government and the Afghan security forces, which the United States has been financing for twenty years with
tens of billions of dollars
.
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