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The Taliban has urged public officials to return to work and renewed a pledge to grant amnesty to government workers a day after Joe Biden blamed Afghan security forces for their rapid capitulation to the insurgents.
The Islamist group’s effort to reassure Afghans came as evacuation flights resumed from Kabul, following a chaotic day at the airport in which panicked residents mobbed aircraft to escape the country.
The Taliban said foreigners and Afghans in the country would be permitted to work on Tuesday, after the group swept aside President Ashraf Ghani’s government within hours after arriving at the gates of Kabul this weekend.
The militants ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001 and imposed a brutal interpretation of Islam that largely extinguished women’s rights and deployed cruel punishments, including public executions and amputations.
“A general amnesty has been…