Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghanistan President, was “a total fraud” solely focused on his own desire to stay in power and a big hurdle in any peace talks, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said. In his book titled 'Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love,' Pompeo claims that both Ghani and Afghanistan's former chief executive Abdullah Abdullah were involved in corruption at the highest levels that limited the US' ability to successfully exit the war-torn country in August 2021.