General Haibatullah: Government had no plan to defend the capital on the eve of the fall of Kabul

Elaha Mon Aug 2026 2 weeks ago 254

Alizai says that Ashraf Ghani, the then-president of Afghanistan, appointed him as the army chief of staff in the final days of his government; but just four days after starting his role, he asked him to prepare a plan for defending Kabul. According to him, by August 14, the Ministry of Defense was expected to have had a plan in place for a long time to ensure the security and defense of the capital, and the absence of such a plan at that stage of the war was surprising to him; because the Taliban were advancing at a rapid pace, and the next day, on August 15, 2021, they entered Kabul.


He also said that in mid-June of the same year, he had prepared a plan to contain the Taliban's advance and sent it to the Ministry of Defense; but the slowness of the decision-making process in the government prevented its swift implementation. Alizai emphasized that options for counteraction existed, but the military developments were progressing at such a speed that there was no longer sufficient time to put decisions into action.


According to Alizai, even after Ashraf Ghani and a number of senior government officials fled the country on August 15, he still believed that the possibility of continuing military resistance existed. Regarding his reaction after learning of the president's flight, he said that he smiled and thought that with the president's departure, the ground had been set for declaring martial law; because from his perspective, this authority existed, and army forces were still engaged in fighting in various regions of Afghanistan.


Alizai added that at that time, army forces were present around Kabul, Helmand, and a number of provinces near the capital. From his view, the president's flight and the collapse of the political structure did not mean that military resistance had to necessarily end, and there was still the possibility of continuing the war and resistance against the Taliban.



General Hibatullah Alizai, the last chief of staff of the army of Afghanistan's former government, says that in the final days of the republic's regime, the Ministry of Defense had no specific or prepared plan to defend Kabul against the Taliban advance. He raised this issue in an interview with CBS television, on the occasion of the withdrawal of the last American soldier from Afghanistan.

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