My nation is in chaos, we would like peace: Rashid Khan appeals as violence escalates in Afghanistan
Amid the escalating violence in Afghanistan, star leg-spinner Rashid Khan took to Twitter on Tuesday and appealed for peace. He requested the ‘World Leaders’ to not go away his countrymen in ‘chaos’.
“Dear World Leaders! My country is in chaos,thousand of innocent people, including children & women, get martyred everyday, houses & properties being destructed.Thousand families displaced. Don’t leave us in chaos. Stop killing Afghans & destroying Afghaniatan. We want peace,” wrote Rashid.
Dear World Leaders! My nation is in chaos,thousand of harmless folks, together with youngsters & ladies, get martyred on a regular basis, homes & properties being destructed.Thousand households displaced..Don’t go away us in chaos. Stop killing Afghans & destroying Afghaniatan🇦🇫.We need peace.🙏
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) August 10, 2021
Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on captured Afghan territory on Tuesday as civilians hid of their properties, with an EU official saying the militants now managed 65% of the nation after a string of sudden good points as international forces pull out.
President Ashraf Ghani known as on regional strongmen to help his authorities, whereas a U.N. official mentioned advances made in human rights within the 20 years because the hardline Islamists have been ousted from energy have been in peril of being erased.
In the city of Aibak, capital of Samangan province on the principle highway between the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul, Taliban fighters have been consolidating their management, shifting into authorities buildings, residents mentioned. Most authorities safety forces appeared to have withdrawn.
Taliban fighters seized many of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s key Kunduz province on Sunday, and took one other neighboring provincial capital after a monthlong siege. The advances have been the most recent in a collection of blows to authorities forces as U.S. troops full their pullout after almost twenty years within the nation.