The daughter of Afghanistan’s in-exile President, Ashraf Ghani, was spotted strolling around New York City this week as the deadly and chaotic US evacuations in Kabul continue.
Mariam Ghani, 42, stepped out with a female friend in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon just days after her father abandoned his country and his citizens amid the Taliban takeover.
The visual artist and filmmaker, who lives in a luxury co-op building in Clinton Hill, strolled along the sidewalk clutching her mask as she chats with her friend.
Her sighting came as her 72-year-old father resurfaced in the United Arab Emirates, where he has been granted asylum.
The UAE’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged it had welcomed the Afghan leader on “humanitarian grounds.”
Ghani run out of the presidential palace Sunday with his inner circle of confidantes, and, according to the Russian embassy in Kabul, fled with four vehicles and a helicopter full of cash.
Some reports had earlier suggested that he bolted to a neighboring country like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan or Oman.
His daughter refused to answer questions outside her apartment a day earlier when The Post caught up to her.
It’s unclear whether Ghani, who was born in Brooklyn and raised in suburban Maryland, has heard from her father since he fled.
In an Instagram post Monday — a day after the Taliban seized control — Mariam said she was “angry and grieving and terribly afraid for family, friends & colleagues left behind in Afghanistan,” adding that she was “working feverishly to do anything I can on their behalf.”
As many as 80,000 Americans and Afghans who once worked for the US still need to be evacuated from Kabul amid the botched withdrawal that has been marred by violence and chaos.
The US has evacuated 7,000 from Kabul since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan five days ago, but there are still between 60,000 and 80,000 who need to get out.
While her father was working in the Afghan government dating back to 2002, Ghani was launching her art and teaching career here in the US after attending New York University and the School of Visual Arts.
Her work has since appeared in some of the most renowned museums in the world, including the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York and the Tate Modern in London. In 2018, she joined the faculty at Bennington College in Vermont.
Her first feature documentary, “What We Left Unfinished,” about five films that were started and left abandoned during the Communist era in Afghanistan, is currently playing in select theaters.