The former president of Afghanistan who left his country exactly one year ago in an interview said that, he hoped to return to Afghanistan in the near future.

Afghan Voice Agency(AVA)_Monitoring, Ghani, who left Afghanistan amid the unrest, told CNN in an interview that he hoped to go back to Afghanistan soon.

Former president Ghani said, “I want to be able to help my country heal. And I hope to be able to do that from the place where every cell in my body belongs and without which I always feel alien.”

In another interview, the Afghan leader stated that “no power in the world could persuade me now to get on a plane and leave this country. It is a country that I love and I will die defending.”

Ghani maintained that he was “the last person to leave” and that it was “impossible” to defend Afghanistan when asked why he left the country he had undertaken to “die defending.”