KABUL—Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said he started wide-ranging consultations on how to unite the Afghan society and prevent further bloodshed, as the Taliban tightened their grip on the country, seizing additional provincial capitals.
Mr. Ghani, in his first public remarks since the Taliban swept through southern and western Afghanistan, capturing the major cities of Kandahar and Herat, said his priority is to remobilize the Afghan security forces that surrendered en masse.
“As a historic responsibility, I am trying to not let the war that has been imposed on the Afghan people cause the further killing of innocents, the loss of 20 years of achievement, the destruction of public institutions and longstanding instability,” Mr. Ghani said in a two-minute-and-39-second-long video message that he released on social media, the country’s flag unfurled behind him.
Mr. Ghani, who has come under growing pressure from Afghan…
