Ashraf Ghani's brother swears allegiance to Taliban
World | Aug 23, 2021, 09:24 AM ISTHashmat Ghani, did not have any official position during the eight-year tenure of Ashraf Ghani.
Hashmat Ghani, did not have any official position during the eight-year tenure of Ashraf Ghani.
A Republican lawmaker has alleged that Pakistan and its intelligence service have played a key role in fostering the Taliban.
So far, only India has helped evacuation of Afghan Sikhs after the takeover of the country by the Taliban.
At the one-week mark since the Taliban completed its takeover of the country, U.S. officials expressed growing concern about the threat to the evacuation from the Islamic State group. That worry comes on top of obstacles to that mission from the Taliban, as well as U.S. government bureaucratic problems.
Thousands of Afghan nationals and foreigners are fleeing the country to escape the new Taliban regime and to seek asylum in different nations, including the US and many European nations, resulting in total chaos at Kabul airport and reportedly seven fresh deaths.
India on Sunday evacuated 168 passengers including 107 Indian nationals through Indian Air Force's C-17 aircraft that landed at IAF's Hindon Air Base.
As BJP mourns the death of its veteran leader, party leaders in Aligarh have reiterated their demand to name the newly-constructed mini airport in Aligarh after Kalyan Singh.
Air India, Vistara, and IndiGo carrying Indian nationals from Kabul landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Terminal 3 on Sunday Morning.
India has already evacuated 200 people including the Indian envoy and other staffers of its embassy in Kabul in two C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft of the IAF after the Taliban seized control of Kabul.
Another seven Afghan civilian were killed in crowds showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
One video showed an American serviceman reaching over a barbed wire-fitted wall to grab a baby with one hand and haul it into the protected compound.
The US has evacuated some 17,000 people from Afghanistan since August 14, Pentagon informed on Saturday.
The sources said that the IAF's C-130J transport plane landed in Tajikistan for refuelling and is likely to arrive at the Hindon Air Force Station in Ghaziabad on Sunday.
US embassy in Kabul in a security alert to its citizens over evacuation concerns said, "because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so."
The Indians were among 150 people who were heading towards the Kabul airport when they were stopped by Taliban fighters, according to Afghan media reports.
Meanwhile, an Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft on Saturday departed from the Kabul airport with some eminent Afghan leaders, including public representatives from the Hindu and Sikh communities, as well as 85 Indians on board.
Ministry of External Affairs on Friday recieved a list of names from the Uttarakhand govt of people stuck in Afghanistan.
"I'm ready to speak myself when it is clear with whom should I speak, for what purpose," he said on Thursday at a briefing for reporters.
Young football player Zaki Anwari had climbed onto the USAF Boeing C-17 plane that took off from the Kabul International airport.
Officials said the man arrived from the US on an Air India flight that reached the Indira Gandhi International Airport around midnight.
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