{"id":40229,"date":"2021-12-31T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/ashraf-ghani-blames-international-allies-afghanistan-fall-taliban"},"modified":"2021-12-31T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:12:13","slug":"ashraf-ghani-blames-international-allies-over-afghanistans-fall-to-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40229","title":{"rendered":"Ashraf Ghani blames international allies over Afghanistan\u2019s fall to Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In first interview since fleeing Kabul in August, former president says US \u2018erased\u2019 Afghans in years of peace talks with militants<\/p>\n<p>The former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has broken his silence with his first interview since fleeing Kabul four months ago, in effect blaming the international community and in particular the Americans for the fall of the republic.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani told the BBC he was rushed into fleeing Kabul on a helicopter by his \u201cterrified\u201d national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, and the commander of the collapsing presidential security detail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/ashraf-ghani-blames-international-allies-afghanistan-fall-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In first interview since fleeing Kabul in August, former president says US \u2018erased\u2019 Afghans in years of peace talks with militantsThe former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has broken his silence with his first interview since fleeing Kabul four months a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,621,61,44,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40230,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229\/revisions\/40230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}