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Taliban insurgents have declared that the ‘war’ in Afghanistan is over after they entered Kabul on Sunday and took control over the Presidential Palace.

Kabul woke up to a new dawn on Monday as panicked gripped the city with heavily armed Taliban fighters took control of the abandoned presidential palace.

The Western nations are trying hard to evacuate their citizens.

The Afghanistanis are also moving to Kabul airport in a bid to escape the nation that has been witnessing a resurgence in violence ever since foreign forces started leaving the country.

A spokesman for Taliban’s political office toldAl Jazeera the group did not want to live in isolation and said the type and form of the new government in Afghanistan would be made clear soon.

Mohammad Naeem also called for peaceful international relations.

“Thanks to God, the war is over in the country,” he said.

“We have reached what we were seeking, which is the freedom of our country and the independence of our people,” he added. “We will not allow anyone to use our lands to target anyone, and we do not want to harm others.”

Senior officials of the Taliban Islamist movement told The Times that the organization wanted absolute power in Afghanistan.

The officials dismissed media reports about the Taliban’s plans to create a transitional government that would oversee the transfer of power in the country.
“We did not fight to share power with anyone,” one of the officials said.

Donald Trump reacts:

Former US President Donald Trump said the recent developments in Afghanistan are a major failure of the current US administration.

“What [US President] Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary. It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history!” Trump said in a Sunday statement.

(With UNI/Sputnik inputs)

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