Afghanistan / Person who fell from the plane was a member of the Afghan national football team

One of the individuals who tragically fell from a US Air Force aircraft departing from Kabul because the Taliban took over the war-torn country turned into reportedly a member of the Afghanistan countrywide soccer team, Director General of the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies Davood Moradian advised the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 20, 2021, 12:40 AM

One of the individuals who tragically fell from a US Air Force aircraft departing from Kabul because the Taliban took over the war-torn country turned into reportedly a member of the Afghanistan countrywide soccer team, Director General of the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies Davood Moradian advised the UN Security Council on Thursday.


Mr Moradian, who escaped from Kabul because the Taliban took manage of the country on Sunday, really spoke on the UN Security Council briefing on 'Threats to worldwide peace and protection due to terrorist acts’, chaired through External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held beneath neath India’s contemporary Presidency of the Council.


“I turned into at Kabul airport whilst determined passengers held departing US aeroplanes and additionally my plane that turned into because of going away Kabul airport,” he stated.

“It turned into sheer human desperation, helplessness and fear. One of the passengers that fell to the floor from a flying USA aircraft turned into reportedly a member of Afghanistan countrywide soccer team.


“These passengers had been now no longer by myself of their desperation and fear. They constitute hundreds of thousands of Afghans from various backgrounds, from women's rights activists to farmers. The international need to intrude to avoid and mitigate an apocalyptic humanitarian tragedy,” Mr Moradian stated. He stated that he's the usage of the phrase disaster to explain the scenario in Afghanistan because "I turned into in a completely catastrophic scenario in Kabul simply forty-eight hours ago.


“The disaster of Afghanistan over the past 4 a long time has proven that a navy answer is only a quick pause to the following section of the war. The Taliban and their nearby partners, especially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, need to mirror on their fundamental purpose in both mitigating or accelerating a catastrophic scenario in Afghanistan,” he added.