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For further than 70 times, the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington,D.C., has held down the corner lot in a neighborhood of grand delegacies. With its giant black, red and green flag, lush landscaping and stately slipup and gravestone, it’s hard to tell the democracy has fallen.
Inside however, it’s clear Afghanistan is now a country broken.
The staircases are dark, the hallways quiet and the services empty. Except for one, on the top bottom. Abdul Hadi Nejrabi, the deputy minister, is the loftiest ranking functionary then. A new minister was supposed to come this summer, but also Kabul fell to the Taliban.
“We continue to operate then at the delegacy,”he says from his office overlooking a large, manicured theater.”We’ve to continue. We do not have any other options.”
Nejrabi has a shelf full of binders on Afghan election results and Afghan public opinion checks — two effects that hardly matter presently.
“We choose to serve the people,”he says.”That is the reason we’re then. We can not close the door of the delegacy.”
They’ven’t closed the door yet, but they may not be suitable to keep it open much longer. The Afghan democracy, the government before the Taliban, used to fund the delegacy in daily inaugurations. Now that plutocrat has nearly run out.
Nejrabi has let utmost of the staff go. He and the other 11 diplomats then are working for free, contending to help thousands of Afghans who still want to escape the Taliban and also help deportees get the documents they need to start new lives. Nejrabi says they can keep working for a many further months. But ultimately indeed he, the diplomats, and the many staffers left will have to find a way to pay their own rent and electric bills. The State Department told them they will be allowed to stay in theU.S.
The delegacy, once a important symbol of a new Afghanistan, was staffed to serve a democracy that no longer exists. Nejrabi says none of them can see a world where they will serve the Taliban. But they can not go home moreover.
” Presently they captured (my) house in Kabul,”he says,”that was erected by my father 35 times agone.”
The Taliban took all of his family’s effects. They’re now in caching, hoping to escape.
Every week he talks on the phone with his former associates at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They’re also living in fear. They supplicate him to help them get out, and he is trying. He is only heard from the Taliban formerly. A many weeks ago the acting foreign minister transferred all the ministers at delegacies around the world a link to a Drone meeting.
