{"id":40466,"date":"2021-08-18T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40466"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:38:43","slug":"taliban-have-been-looking-for-me-says-ex-afghanistan-bank-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40466","title":{"rendered":"Taliban have been looking for me, says ex-Afghanistan bank governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Afghanistan\u2019s former central bank governor has said that he will not return to the country despite assurances from the Taliban that former officials can return with amnesty to their jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ajmal Ahmady told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world_radio_and_tv\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC World News<\/a> that the Taliban had been looking for him, knocking on doors at properties where he had previously lived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Ahmady said he made a lot of enemies trying to implement reforms and even if the Taliban did provide amnesty, in the current turmoil and uncertainty, he was not sure what the outcome would be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He stayed at his desk trying to reassure banks and investors until Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">After the Taliban came into the capital, Kabul, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-58230941\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">he fled the country<\/a> on a military flight that evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58255402\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s former central bank governor has said that he will not return to the country despite assurances from the Taliban that former officials can return with amnesty to their jobs. Ajmal Ahmady told BBC World News that the Taliban had been looking for him, knocking on doors at properties where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119976018_p09sjpkk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}