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Afghanistan: Only united nations bring down invaders, Taliban hit back at Biden
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KABUL, 22 January 2022, (TON): Only united nations can expel invaders and bring down powerful empires, the interim Taliban government said on Friday, rebuffing US President Joe Biden’s assertions about divisions among Afghans.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson for the interim Afghan Foreign Ministry, wrote on Twitter “discord is an external phenomenon instigated by foreign invaders for their survival, however, Afghans defeated them with their shared Islamic beliefs, homeland and celebrated history, and are now taking strong leaps towards becoming an equal nation.”
The statement came hours after Biden’s White House news conference, where he said the US exited Afghanistan because it was not possible to “unify Afghanistan under one single government”.
Biden said “it’s been the graveyard of empires for a solid reason: It is not susceptible to unity.”
Balkhi contended that the US president’s comment on Afghanistan being the “graveyard of empires” was “itself an admission of Afghan unity”.
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