USA: Tearful Afghan journalist asks Pentagon spox "where's my president"

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Afghan reporter Nazira Karimi got emotional at a Pentagon press briefing in Arlington on Sunday, while asking a question directed at Pentagon press secretary John F. Kirby.
“I’m from Afghanistan and I’m very upset today because Afghan women didn’t expect that overnight all the Taliban came,” the reporter at the Ariana Television Network, beofre asking “Where is my President? Former President [Ashraf] Ghani?”
Karimi, a formal BBC Persian correspondent, began her career as a reporter on Afghanistan National TV.
The briefing came following the takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban fighters as they entered Kabul on Sunday. President Ashraf Ghani has also fled the country and the US has evacuated all personnel from its embassy.
The recent Taliban offensive follows the US and other NATO forces’ ongoing withdrawal from the country.

SOT, Nazira Karimi, Afghan Journalist: “As you know I’m from Afghanistan and I’m very upset today because Afghan women didn’t expect that overnight all the Taliban came. They took off my flag. This is my flag and they put their flag. Everybody is upset, especially women. And I forgot my question to you. But you ask, where is my President? Former President Ghani? People expected that he bye bye the people and he immediately ran away. We don’t know where it is, and we don’t have a president. President Biden said the president, you know, he has to fight for his people. They have to do everything and we able to financially help them. But we don’t have any president. We don’t have anything. Afghan people, they don’t know what to do. Women has a lot of achievement in Afghanistan. I had a lot of achievement. I left from the Taliban like 20 years ago. Now we go back to the first step. Do you have any comment. Where is President Ghani, he should answer to the Afghan people.”

SOT, John Kirby, Pentagon Spokesman: “[I obviously ] Can’t speak for Ashraf Ghani or where he is or what his views are. I wouldn’t do that. But let me say with all respect, that I understand and we all understand the the anxiety and the fear and the pain that you’re feeling. It’s it’s clear and it’s evident. And nobody here at the Pentagon is happy about the images that we’ve seen coming out in the last few days. And we’re all mindful of the kind of governance that the Taliban is capable of.

SOT, John Kirby, Pentagon Spokesman: “So, you know, heartfelt respect to what you’re going through. And we we understand that. A lot of us have spent time in Afghanistan. The general mentioned that. Everything that you’re seeing in the last 48, 72 hours is personal for everybody here at the Pentagon. We, too, have invested greatly in Afghanistan and in the progress that women and girls have made politically, economically, socially. And we certainly do understand and we do feel the pain that that you’re feeling probably not to the same extent.”

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