“We once again invite them all to come and serve the nation and the country,” he said.īut it was an offer viewed with scepticism by many. Shaheen, the Taliban spokesman, has promised “amnesty” for those who worked for the now-fallen government, or with western nations, inviting them – though probably only the men – to serve under Taliban rule.
The United Nations refugee agency says more than 550,000 people in Afghanistan have left their homes due to the conflict since the start of this year. In parks and other open areas, people who had fled the Taliban’s advance in other parts of Afghanistan huddled in tents, fearful of a future they had tried and failed to escape. Photograph: Bashir Darwish/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock People racing home to shelter as the Taliban entered Kabul. Even hospitals were closed, with at least one desperate woman forced to give birth at home, with a doctor she begged to attend. Women without burqas searched for shops where they could buy them. It is expected to be used to declare a new Islamic Emirate, more than two decades after the group had established its first one, and TV footage showed Taliban fighters roaming its rooms and taking down flags to replace with their own standard.Īfghans with no option to leave had raced home to destroy evidence of western or government links when they realised the Taliban were arriving. By evening the Taliban had seized the “Arg”, the presidential palace that is Afghanistan’s historic seat of power. So they moved in not as fighters but as policemen, presenting themselves as a government in waiting. But with surrender apparently inevitable, Afghan government forces melted away, looting broke out, and hours later the Taliban claimed their men were needed to restore order. We want a peaceful transfer of power,” said spokesman Suhail Shaheen. Taliban commanders started the day so confident of victory that after their fighters surrounded the capital, they ordered them to stay outside the city and wait. It was clear from early Sunday that a second era of Taliban rule had effectively begun.
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