hamdullah mohib, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you feel when you heard that the us were pulling their troops out of afghanistan at the beginning ofjuly? this had been a long discussion. it didn't come as a total surprise to us. but the timing of when they will do this, the amount of time that it will take to do this was a bit of a shock. that said, it is a decision that was made and we respect that and are trying to make the best of what we now have to do and can. the way it was done, though, according to the times, the electricity was on a timer that was set to go off 20 minutes after the last plane left bagram air base. was that true? look, the withdrawal from bagram air base is not the whole of the story. maybe the airport itself is one story, but then general miller and general mackenzie had a handover ceremony in kabul and it was a proper handover after that. but... so you didn't feel any sense of betrayal? it's an american decision. i am more happy talking about what afghanistan can control. 0k, well, let's turn to that, bec

my guest is afghanistan's national security adviser, hamdullah mohib. described the situation in afghanistan as grim.

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