{"id":39669,"date":"2021-08-19T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-fled-kabul-with-169-million-in-cash-report\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:01:08","slug":"afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-fled-kabul-with-169-million-in-cash-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=39669","title":{"rendered":"Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul with $169 million in cash \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has been \u201cwelcomed\u201d to the United Arab Emirates on \u201chumanitarian grounds,\u201d the UAE government confirmed Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Sunday, Ghani fled Kabul without announcement or known destination, as the Taliban laid siege to Afghanistan\u2019s capital, writes CNBC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He took with him $169 million in cash, reports BBC journalist Kawoon Khamoosh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,\u201d said the gulf nation\u2019s government.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Russian news agency had previously reported the president fled the country \u201cwith four cars and a helicopter full of cash,\u201d says Reuters, but it appears the actual monetary amount was, at the time, not yet known.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Wednesday, the Afghan embassy in Tajikistan asked Interpol police to detain Ghani and two other colleagues \u201con charges of stealing public wealth,\u201d Afghanistan\u2019s TOLO News reports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ghani claimed he left the country to prevent \u201ca flood of bloodshed,\u201d CNBC reports. He later defended his decision in a social media post, writing, \u201cIf I had stayed, countless of my countrymen would be martyred and Kabul would face destruction,\u201d as per The New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has been \u201cwelcomed\u201d to the United Arab Emirates on \u201chumanitarian grounds,\u201d the UAE government confirmed Wednesday. On Sunday, Ghani fled Kabul without announcement or known destination, as the Taliban laid siege to Afghanistan\u2019s capital, writes CNBC. He took with him $169 million in cash, reports BBC journalist Kawoon Khamoosh. \u201cThe UAE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}