Mubariz spoke to Outlook over the phone at 3:00 am from the Kabul airport on August 20 and narrated the chaotic situation which led to the death of around 12 people.
The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has taken the world by surprise. In Africa, it compounds the worry and fear in countries struggling to crush Islamist insurgencies.
Kabul has fallen to the Taliban, forcing former president Ashraf Ghani to join the citizens and foreigners in Afghanistan to escape the country. Ashraf Ghani, however, is not the first Afghan president to lose power to the Taliban. Mohammed Najibullah was Afghanistan's president when the Taliban first captured the country. Read on to know about Mohammed Najibullah.