Afghan diplomats are putting on a brave face as they battle the fall of their home country to the Taliban, the likely loss of employment in the U.S., and their fears for the fate of family members and friends stuck in Afghanistan
Two Afghans seeking consular services were at the Afghan consulate in Washington’s Glover Park neighborhood on Monday afternoon, one looking for a passport for his son, but there was little outward sense of the unfolding crisis back home.
The ambassador has made no public statements, but other former Afghan government officials have spoken out, with some lacerating former President Ashraf Ghani for fleeing the country as the Taliban closed in on the presidential palace. Ghani’s colleague and sometime rival, Abdullah Abdullah, chair of the High Council for National Reconciliation, stayed in Kabul, while former Vice President Amrullah Saleh has vowed to fight on against the new regime.
Outside the embassy on Monday, near Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s former house, it was quiet with only birds occasionally chirping, but lit chandelier lights could be seen in the embassy. In better times, the embassy was known to host swanky backyard parties thrown by former Ambassador Hamdullah Mohib, who became Ghani’s national security adviser after his Washington posting.
But Rahmani, the former ambassador, said that when she left her post a month ago, there was enough money in the budget that the embassy could function for a “long enough” time even without new funds coming in from Kabul. “We are taking stock of what has transpired over the past several days," a State Department official said. "We have no announcements to preview.”
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