Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and his family are in the United Arab Emirates, the UAE's Foreign Ministry has confirmed.
"The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds," the ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
Abu Dhabi did not provide any additional information, such as the conditions of the Ghani family's asylum, his precise whereabouts, or who would be paying for the former president's residence in the Gulf sheikhdom.
- Ghani May Be in Hospital
Later Thursday, Fakhruddin Qarizada, a former advisor to the Afghan foreign ministry tweeted, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, that Ghani had been hospitalized in Abu Dhabi due to 'deteriorating health'.
Earlier in the day, former Afghan Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi asked Interpol to detain Ghani for "selling" his homeland. Mohammadi, who is also reported to have fled for the UAE following the collapse of Kabul on Sunday, has accused Ghani of large-scale corruption, and of "tying the army's hands behind its back," preventing it from fighting properly....
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