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His Afghan government leader father reportedly fled Kabul in a helicopter stuffed with $169million in cash and four cars - but Tarek Ghani leads an altogether different existence as an economics professor residing in one of America's most genteel neighborhoods, DailyMail.com can reveal. Life for the 39-year-old son of exiled Ashraf Ghani could not be more different to the horror unfolding on the streets of the Afghan capital where the Taliban are beginning to exert their rule of terror and killing. He and wife Elizabeth Pearson own an immaculate $1.2million red-painted town house just a mile from the Capitol building in a charming Washington DC enclave, its patchwork of streets lined with trees and other similar upscale properties. The power couple bought their three-bedroom, three-bathroom home for $959,000 in 2018 and it has rocketed in value since the Covid pandemic. The area's average real estate prices are in the country's top seven percent. Tarek Ghani is the son of

Heroic US Airmen who ignored red tape restrictions to save hundreds of Afghans from Kabul on a C-17 on Sunday rescued 823 people - 183 people more than previously thought.   At first it had been reported that the crew took 640 Afghans out of Kabul but the true number was 823. The first count didn't include the 183 kids on board.  The flight breaks the record for the number of people to have ever been flown on a C-17 jet and disgraces the other C-17 jets that have left Kabul with only 100-200 people on board this week, while thousands wait at the airport gates desperate to be saved, but who can't get on planes without visas or foreign passports.   On Friday, Lt. Colonel Eric Kut, who made the decision to leave the airport with as many Afghans on board, said he was more interested in saving lives than checking paperwork and abiding by red tape rules.  'First and foremost, a lot of people talk about rules and capacity. We were trained to handle that to max perform that aircraf

Of all the haunting images to have emerged from Kabul this week – stampedes of Afghans desperately trying to flee the fallen city, even passing babies over barbed wire in the hope the soldiers on the other side will give their children a better life – the sight of a near empty aeroplane leaving the Taliban stronghold was enough to break your heart. Kaisa Farthing, wife of British former Royal Marine Pen Farthing who runs the animal rescue charity Nowzad in the Afghan capital, was on that plane and knows only too well the agony of leaving so many behind. When she finally embraced her mother at Oslo airport yesterday, her head was ‘spinning’ and she ‘couldn’t think straight’ as she tried to reconcile the fact she was safe whilst so many of those she loves remain in peril. Former Royal Marine commando Paul 'Pen' Farthing, who runs an animal sanctuary in Kabul, with his wife Kaisa Helene Mr Farthing, a British expat who lives in Kabul, got separated from his wife during the Taliban

While watching the West’s lamentable flight from Afghanistan this week, it has been impossible not to cast back my mind 20 years. To ‘liberated’ Kabul in the first spring after what was then seen as the Taliban’s final defeat. Much of the outskirts of the capital lay in ruins after two decades of war. But peace had come. And so I found myself perched in the gods of a derelict cinema that had been closed down by the joyless mullahs of the ousted regime. Unfolding below me was apparent proof of an extraordinary sea change; as sudden and antithetical to what had gone before as the shaming scenes at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport are to us today. It was March 8, 2002: the first International Women’s Day ever to be celebrated in a land where females had been, at best, second-class citizens. To mark the occasion, representatives of Kabul’s womenfolk — banned by the Taliban on threat of physical punishment from leaving home without a male relative or the invisibility afforded by a burqa — were

President Obama's 60th birthday bash and the fierce backlash it amassed has dampened the mood on partying in Washington.  Though the former president required Covid testing and vaccinations to attend the lavish fête, the event was deemed to be in poor taste amid the rampant spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19, and others are weary not to make their own PR blunder.   'Over the last 11 years I've probably gone to 2,000 parties, and suddenly they've all come to a screeching halt because of overwrought fears that your event is going to  become the next super-spreader' covered by the media, John Arundel, former associate publisher of Washington Life magazine and managing director of Perdicus Communications, told DailyMail.com.  'There was a bit of hysteria over that Obama birthday party,' Arundel said, 'I do sense a chilling effect.'    Hundreds of people, including many Hollywood A-listers, attended Obama's birthday bash last Saturday, flying in