‘One of those who fell from US Air Force plane was member of Afghan national football team’

Davood Moradian, who escaped from Kabul as the Taliban took control of the country on Sunday, virtually spoke at the UN Security Council briefing

One of those who tragically fell from a US Air Force plane departing from Kabul as the Taliban took over the war-torn country was reportedly a member of the Afghanistan national football team, Director General of the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies Davood Moradian told the UN Security Council on Thursday. Mr Moradian, who escaped from Kabul as the Taliban took control of the country on Sunday, virtually spoke at the UN Security Council briefing on 'Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts’, chaired by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held under India’s current Presidency of the Council. “I was at Kabul airport when desperate passengers held departing US airplanes and also my own airplane that was due to leave Kabul airport,” he said.