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Taliban Enter Afghan Capital, President and Diplomats Flee BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Qatar’s ‘strong Premier League: growth rebound’ Manchester seen on growing City shocked Asian LNG demand: 0-1 by Kane-less World Bank Tottenham published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXXII No. 12007 August 16, 2021 Muharram 8, 1443 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Amir congratulates Amir gets invitation to take part Indian president in regional summit to support Iraq His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Taliban enter Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani sent yesterday cables of congratulations to Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on the anniversary of his country’s Independence Day. HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Afghan capital, Interior Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani also sent a similar cable of congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (QNA) Amir sends cable president and of condolences to Turkish president His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim diplomats fl ee bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Militants rule out a transitional government Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has received a written message from Iraqi Abdulaziz al-Thani sent yesterday Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, inviting him to participate in the regional summit to support cables of condolences and sympathy Iraq, which will be held in Baghdad on August 28. The message was delivered by Iraqi National to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji, during a meeting with His Highness the Amir at the Amiri Diwan Erdogan on the victims of the off ice yesterday. At the outset of the meeting, al-Araji conveyed to the Amir the greetings of Iraqi torrential rains that struck several President Dr Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, and their wishes of every states in Turkey, wishing the injured success to the Amir, and to the Qatari people further progress and prosperity. For his part, the Amir a speedy recovery. (QNA) entrusted al-Araji to convey his greetings to the Iraqi president and the prime minister, wishing them good health and the Iraqi people further progress and prosperity. (QNA) Page 2 Amir condoles with Lebanese president President left for Tashkent: Al Jazeera His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and His Highness Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, his wife, his chief of staff and national security adviser have left the the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah country for Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Al Jazeera news channel reported yesterday citing a personal bin Hamad al-Thani sent yesterday bodyguard of the president. Dozens of Taliban fighters have taken control of the presidential palace, cables of condolences to Lebanese declaring victory over the Afghan government in images broadcast on television. “Our country has President Michel Aoun on the victims Taliban fighters enter presidential palace in Kabul after President Ghani flees Afghanistan. been liberated and the mujahideen are victorious in Afghanistan,” one militant told Al Jazeera from the of the fuel tank explosion in the town palace. of Altalil in the Akkar region, wishing Reuters American diplomats were fl own from their the injured a speedy recovery. HE Kabul embassy by helicopter to the airport as Afghan the Prime Minister and Minister of forces, trained for years and equipped by the Interior Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin United States and others for billions of dollars, Ghani says he fled to prevent bloodshed Abdulaziz al-Thani also sent a similar aliban insurgents entered Kabul yesterday melted away. cable of condolences to Caretaker and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghani- The US embassy said in a security alert that “the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that he had fled the country yesterday to “prevent a flood of Prime Minister Dr Hassan Diab. (QNA) Tstan saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed, security situation in Kabul is changing quickly” bloodshed”. Ghani said he believed “countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would bringing the Islamist militants close to taking including at the airport, adding that there were re- be destroyed” if he had stayed behind. “The Taliban have won... and are now responsible for the honour, Fuel tank explosion over the country two decades after they were ports the airport had come under fi re. property and self-preservation of their countrymen,” he said in a statement posted to Facebook. He did overthrown by a US-led invasion. Hundreds of Afghans, some of them govern- not say where he had travelled to, but leading Afghan media group Tolo news suggested he had gone kills 28 in Lebanon As night fell, local television 1TV reported that ment ministers and government employees and to Tajikistan. A fuel tank explosion in Lebanon multiple explosions were heard in the city, which also other civilians including many women and killed 28 people and injured 80 had been largely quiet earlier in the day. children, crowded in the terminal at Kabul air- yesterday as a crowd clamoured for It said gunfi re could be heard near the airport, port desperately waiting for fl ights out. petrol, authorities and medics said. where foreign diplomats, offi cials and other Af- Taliban fi ghters reached Kabul “from all The tragedy in the remote north ghans fl ed seeking to leave the country. sides”, the senior Interior Ministry offi cial told Taliban ‘govt’ should not be recognised: UK overwhelmed medical facilities and Aid group Emergency said 80 wounded people Reuters and there were some reports of sporadic Nobody should bilaterally recognise the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, British Prime heaped new misery on a nation had been brought to its hospital in Kabul. gunfi re around the city. Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday, adding it was clear that there would be a new administration in already beset by an economic crisis It was not yet clear how exactly power would During Sunday, the government’s acting in- the country very shortly. “We don’t want anybody bilaterally recognising the Taliban,” Johnson said in and severe fuel shortages .The health be transferred following the Taliban’s lightning terior minister, Abdul Sattar Mirzakawal, said an interview clip, urging the West to work together on Afghanistan through mechanisms such as the ministry said the explosion in Al-Tleil sweep in recent weeks across Afghanistan. power would be handed over to a transitional United Nations and Nato. “We want a united position amongst all the like-minded as far as we can get village in the Akkar region killed 28 Their advance accelerated as US and other administration. one so that we do whatever we can to prevent Afghanistan lapsing back into being a breeding ground people and wounded 80. Page 6 foreign troops withdrew in line with President He tweeted: “There won’t be an attack on for terror.” Joe Biden’s desire to end America’s longest war, the city, it is agreed that there will be a peaceful Haiti earthquake launched after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. handover”. Insurgents entered the presidential palace and However, two Taliban offi cials told Reuters toll hits 724 took control of it, two senior Taliban command- there would be no transitional government. The The death toll from a devastating ers in Kabul said. Taliban said earlier it was waiting for the gov- earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 Al Jazeera television later showed footage of ernment to surrender peacefully. yesterday with rescuers scrambling what it said were Taliban commanders in the Many of Kabul’s streets were choked by cars to find survivors buried under palace with dozens of armed fi ghters. and people either trying to rush home or reach rumble and hospitals struggling to The Taliban also said they had taken control of the airport, residents said. cope with thousands of injured, as most of the districts around the outskirts of the US officials said diplomats were being fer- a major storm barrelled toward the capital. ried by helicopters to the airport from its em- Caribbean state. The 7.2 magnitude Some local social media users branded Ghani a bassy in the fortified Wazir Akbar Khan dis- quake on Saturday flattened “coward” for leaving them in chaos. trict. Pages 10, 11 hundreds of homes and buildings in a Caribbean nation which is still clawing its way back from another major temblor 11 years ago and reeling from the assassination of its president last month. Southwestern Haiti bore the brunt of the blow, especially in the region in and around the city of Les Cayes. Page 7 Taliban commander says fighters have taken control of all government headquarters in Kabul. Trudeau calls snap election for Sept 20 Military planes to 1,000 more US troops for Kabul Canadian Prime Minister Justin evacuate Germans The Pentagon authorised an additional 1,000 troops to Trudeau yesterday called an early help with the evacuation from Kabul, a US off icial said, election for Sept 20, saying he Germany yesterday shuttered its embassy in bringing the total number of troops expected in Afghanistan needed a new mandate to ensure Kabul and prepared to send A400M military temporarily to 6,000. The off icial said the additional 1,000 voters approved of his Liberal transport planes to Afghanistan to evacuate troops would come from the 82nd Airborne Division, which government’s plan to recover from as many Germans and local Afghan helpers as had already been on standby. the Covid-19 pandemic. Trudeau, possible. “We are doing everything to enable 49, is betting that high vaccination our citizens and our former local staff to leave rates against the virus and a post- Afghanistan within the next days,” German Saudi mission in Kabul evacuated pandemic economic rebound will foreign minister Heiko Maas said.
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