At the time of the Taliban offensive, Hamdullah Mohib was the Afghan National Security Advisor, the closest man to the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani. It was Mohib who took the decision to leave during the fall of the Afghan republic. Western journalists blamed the Afghan government for the events of 2021. But this personal eyewitness account tells a new story.
Written with award-winning journalist, Tam Hussein, the book is based on hours of interviews with Hamdullah Mohib between 2021 and 2024. Mohib shares his personal insights as somebody who was born under the shadow of the Soviet invasion, came to Britain as a child refugee, and scaled the echelons of power in Afghanistan to become Afghan ambassador to Washington and National Security Advisor. Covering Afghanistan's history since 1980, and based on Mohib's personal experiences, the book reveals why the downfall of the republic was the result of Western and Afghan leaders' betrayal.
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Shadows Over Kabul
An Insider’s Account of the Fall of the Afghan Republic
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Shadows Over Kabul
An Insider’s Account of the Fall of the Afghan Republic
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Preface – The Weight of Betrayal
- Author’s Preface
- An Overview of Afghan History, My Approach to Writing this Book, and Note on the Text
- Cast of Characters
- Part One Beginnings – From Refugee to Politician
- 1 The Accidental Mujahid
- 2 Refugee Boy
- 3 The Asylum Seeker
- 4 Undergraduate Student – Debt, Duty and Destiny
- 5 Homecoming
- 6 Return to the UK and a New Beginning
- Part Two The Rise – The Politics of Hope
- 7 Ghani for President
- 8 In the Halls of Power
- 9 The Appointment
- 10 Ambassador Mohib
- 11 National Security Advisor
- Part Three The Fall – Why the Republic Fell
- 12 The Business of Running a Republic
- 13 Zalmay Khalilzad and the Great Betrayal
- 14 Divide and Leave
- 15 The Prisoner Release – A Turning Point in the Collapse
- 16 The Presidential Crisis, the Taliban and Peace Talks
- 17 Pakistan
- Part Four The Countdown to Collapse
- 18 The Collapse – From Rumours to Reality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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