KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan’s former president Ashraf Ghani has taken a swipe at ex-US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad for the collapse of his government.
Ghani and other senior officials of his administration fled the country in August last year when the Taliban took over Kabul.
In an interview aired on Wednesday, the ex-president also hit out at eminent Afghan politicians for his ouster from power.
Without naming anyone, Ghani alleged Khalilzad and a number of senior Afghan politicians were behind the ouster of his government.
Speaking to the Afghan Broadcasting Network (ABN), he branded Khalilzad --the then US envoy for Afghan peace -- as "corrupt" and "incompetent".
Currently living in the UAE, Ghani claimed he had lost executive power when Kabul was taken over by the Taliban.
Before Kabul’s fall, he recalled, the US embassy in Kabul had set in motion the process of evacuating its staff and Afghan elite forces.
PAN Monitor/mud
