Afghan Ambassador Believes Biden Doesn’t Care About The Fate Of Women Left In Country

Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S., stated in an interview that she doesn’t believe President Biden cares about the fate of Afghan women left behind to live under Taliban rule and stated she feels a level of guilt for persuading women to believe there was a future in the country.

She informed “Axios on HBO” that one of many women she influenced—a human rights advocate– has since been assassinated.

Axios stated the Monday interview with Raz occurred in her embassy‘s office in Washington, where she still flies the former Afghanistan flag. The interview was prior to the appearance of top U.S. military officials in front of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, where Gen. Mark Milley, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the war a “strategic failure.”

“The Taliban was and remain a terrorist organization and they still haven’t broken ties with al Qaeda,” he stated. “I’ve no illusions who we’re dealing with.”

Raz was described in the Axios report as “effectively a refugee representing a leaderless government-in-exile.” The report stated the Taliban reached out to her however she has refused to take the call and stated she would by no means work as an envoy for the Taliban.

She took particular issue with exiled President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country as Taliban fighters routed his federal forces and closed in on the city. His retreat was shrouded in secrecy that gave rise to conspiracy theories that he left with a fortune—an allegation that he denied.

She informed Axios that her husband seen that the exiled president appeared to be having clandestine meetings with top aides as the Taliban closed in.

“I was very sarcastic,” she stated. “I said, ‘Oh, probably they’re working on the evacuation plan.”

The Taliban has been in control of the country for over a month and appear to be finding out that it is more difficult to run a desperately poor country than overthrow one. Kabul could also be plunged into darkness because the country has not continued its payments to its Central Asian electricity suppliers.

“The consequences could be countrywide, however especially in Kabul,” Daud Noorzai, who resigned as chief executive of the country’s state power monopoly, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, told the Wall Street Journal. There will probably be blackout and it will bring Afghanistan back to the Dark Ages with regards to power and to telecommunications. This could be a very dangerous situation.”