Taliban blame US for Kabul airport chaos as Afghans race to flee

Ever since Kabul fell into the hands of Islamist extremist group Taliban, the most chaotic scenes have emerged from the city’s Hamid Karzai International Airport where Afghan citizens have been making desperate bids to flee the country and the Islamist regime. Now, a senior Taliban official has put the blame of the evacuation chaos on the United States.

“America, with all its power and facilities … has failed to bring order to the airport. There is peace and calm all over the country, but there is chaos only at Kabul airport,” Taliban official Amir Khan Mutaqi told AFP.

On Sunday, the British defence ministry said that at least seven Afghan citizens died in the mayhem at the airport, even as scores of civilians tried to escape Afghanistan.