Sarkari Naukri

17 August 2021 Current Affairs:Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani will shortly tender his resignation, as the authorities have surrendered to the Taliban forces, which entered Kabul and sought the unconditional lay down of the central government. 

Highlights:
♦ Following this, a new interim authority has been announced, which is probably to be headed by Ali Ahmad Jalali, a US-based academic.
♦ President Ashraf Ghani fled the united states of america as the Islamist terrorists entered the city, he desired to avoid bloodshed, while lots of Afghans determined to depart flooded Kabul airport.
♦ In Washington, opponents of President Joe Biden’s selection to give up America’s longest war, launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. American diplomats were flown by helicopter to the airport from their embassy in the fortified Wazir Akbar Khan district as Afghan forces, trained for years and outfitted by the United States & others at cost of billions of dollars, melted away.