KARACHI: The government has imposed a ban on the sale and purchase of Afghan currency in Pakistan after the current situation in Afghanistan.
The announcement came after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on Sunday as the Taliban entered Kabul. As per reports, there will be a complete ban on the sale and purchase of Afghan currency.
On Sunday, the Taliban claimed to have taken control of Afghanistan’s presidential palace after President Ashraf Ghani left the country. Hundreds of Afghans invaded the airport’s runways in the dark, pulling luggage and jostling for a place on one of the last commercial flights to leave the country before US forces took over air traffic control.
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The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan was over after they took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled on Monday to evacuate their citizens.
It took the Taliban just over a week to seize control of the country after a lightning sweep that ended in Kabul as Afghan forces, trained for years and equipped by the United States and others at a cost of billions of dollars, melted away.
