Ashraf Ghani speaks at the parliament in Kabul on August 2Afghanistan’s president has issued a call to arms to the Afghan people, urging them to rise up against the Taliban and fight alongside government troops to defend the nation from the Islamist onslaught. Speaking in parliament as fighting raged in key cities, Ashraf Ghani called for a “national uprising” against a Taliban offensive that has seen swathes of Afghanistan fall to the insurgents in recent weeks. SponsoredWarning that “the fate of peace will be determined on the battlefield”, Ghani set out a six-month security plan to take back the initiative, after a string of demoralising defeats. Government forces have buckled and fallen back to major cities in the face of the Taliban assaults, and Ghani urged the Afghan people to fight back, before their country

Source: The Times August 02, 2021 11:26 UTC