Pompeo: Ashraf Ghani was one of the most corrupt leaders

Elaha Mon Apr 2026 5 months ago 448

Pompeo, who was participating in the program alongside former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, responded to a question about the selection of Zalmay Khalilzad and the Doha negotiations process by emphasizing that the United States never sidelined the Afghan government. According to him, over fifteen years, the United States had supported the Afghan government; but that government had failed to meet the basic needs of the people, and the Taliban continued to advance.


He explained that Khalilzad, after reviewing the options, was selected as the best person to represent the United States in the negotiations, and the Trump administration's strategy was to bring all Afghan parties, including the Taliban, together in one room—an action that occurred for the first time in the history of Afghanistan's peace talks.


Pompeo added that Ashraf Ghani had no desire to resolve Afghanistan's crisis and was content with the status quo, a situation that, in his words, endangered the security of U.S. forces and support for the Afghan government. Moreover, both the Trump and Biden administrations entered their election campaigns with the slogan of ending the U.S. presence in Afghanistan; Trump's goal was to reach a solution through negotiation, a process that could have taken as long as ten years, like the peace processes in Colombia or South Africa.


Nevertheless, Pompeo said that the Biden administration ultimately chose the path of a rapid withdrawal, and the opportunity to fully implement the Trump strategy was not provided.


Mike Pompeo refrained from releasing any classified annexes to the Doha agreement at this event, citing national security considerations as the reason. This agreement, signed on February 29, 2020, between the United States and the Taliban, paved the way for the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the start of intra-Afghan negotiations. Under its terms, the United States would withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, and the Taliban committed to not using Afghan soil against the United States and its allies.

Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. Secretary of State, defended the Donald Trump administration's talks with the Taliban during his first term as president at a Dartmouth University event, while calling former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani "one of the most corrupt leaders" he had ever encountered.

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