‘Con-man’: Afghans on outgoing US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad

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Afghan leaders and civilians have lashed out at Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States’Afghanistan-born special envoy to their country, after he stepped down from the part on Monday, nearly two months after the US exited the war- torn nation to conclude its two-decade-long military presence in the country Taking to Twitter, Rahmatullah Nabil, the former chief of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) called Khalilzad a con- man. “ Eventually, he has been expelled from the scene after dragging Afghanistan into an unrecoverable catastrophe,” Nabil twittered.

Meanwhile, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, a former Afghan foreign minister, called Khalilzad out for his “ destructive part in a opprobrious process.” Spanta twittered “ In this process, he’d the support of some naïve politicians and nationalist circles. Now, we’re brazened with a bunch of violentanti-civilised hurdles Residers of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital which was overrun by the Taliban on August 15, too, indicted the gregarious US special envoy of taking the country into its current extremity. “ Khalilzad betrayed us. He brought us into this extremity,” TOLO News quoted a occupant of the megacity as saying. “ His charge was a failure. For us, he’s evil, and the current bad situation has redounded due to his conduct,” another occupant said.

Khalilzad, 70, who was born in Mazar-i-Sharif, was the US’Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, a post he was appointed to by also-President Donald Trump in September 2018. Also a former American minister to that country, he negotiated the February 2020 accord with the Taliban, which ultimately led to the departure of the US- led transnational forces. The US completed its own troop pull-out on August 30, a day before tone- assessed deadline Khalilzad will be succeeded by his deputy Thomas West, a member of President Joe Biden’s public security platoon when Biden was vice chairman under Barack Obama.