With this, the two decade-old American experiment of remaking Afghanistan also came to an end.Īlso read | Why Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan's best academic, failedĪmid the accusations against Pakistan of covertly assisting the Taliban, a US Congressman had urged President Joe Biden to impose sanctions on Islamabad unless they "change course." In a letter to Biden, House Representative Mike Waltz said that Pakistan's military strategy is dictating the Taliban. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani also left the country, while the US evacuated its embassy in Kabul. Fearful the Islamist militants could reimpose its brutal rule that all but eliminated basic rights of women and minorities, panic-gripped citizens rushed to leave the country. The Taliban’s takeover of the war-torn nation was completed on Sunday when their armed troops swept into capital Kabul without minimal resistance after days of rapid advances, said to be powered by Pakistan with weapons, logistics and medical aid. In the same breath, he indirectly likened the ongoing upheaval in Afghanistan with the people of the country breaking the “shackles of slavery". “When you adopt someone’s culture you believe it to be superior and you end up becoming a slave to it,” the cricketing legend-turned-premier was quoted as saying. Khan further spoke about how cultural imposition was tantamount to ‘mental slavery’, according to Pakistan news platform .Īddressing the launch of a government education programme, Khan further criticised the existence of “English medium schools” that he said led to the adoption of “someone else’s culture” in Pakistan. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery” while describing the Taliban’s seizure of power in the neighbouring country.
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