Taliban to BAN Afghans from Kabul Airport after refusing to extend withdrawal deadline amid fears of all-out war
THE Taliban has banned Afghans from Kabul airport after refusing to extend the withdrawal deadline amid mounting fears of an all-out war.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said no evacuation flights from Afghanistan will be allowed after the August 31 deadline - and the militants will accept no extensions.
The Taliban stand guard at Kabul airport 
Afghans have been banned from going to Kabul airportCredit: EPA "August 31 is the time given and after that it's something that is against the agreement," Mujahid said at a press conference today.
"All people should be removed prior to that date. After that we do not allow them, it will not be allowed in our country, we will take a different stance."
And Mujahid said Afghan nations are no longer allowed to go to Kabul airport.
He said crowds at the airport should go home and insisted their "security would be guaranteed".
He also urged the United States not to "encourage" highly skilled people to leave Afghanistan.
Mujahid said the US should not be removing "our doctors, engineers, our educated elite" from the country.
According to translation on Sky News, he said: "We need those people in the country, we do not want them out of the country to work in their institutions."
And he also claimed there was no list of people targeted for reprisals.
"We have forgotten everything in the past," he said.
It came as Mujahid said he was not aware of any meeting between the Taliban and the CIA - but he did not deny that such a meeting took place.
An official said the director of the US agency met with the Taliban's top political leader in Kabul on Monday.
Ben Wallace thinks it is 'unlikely' the Americans will stay in Afghanistan beyond the 31 August
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