ISIS threat forces US to release security advisory for its citizens in Kabul
World | Aug 22, 2021, 06:49 AM ISTThe US has evacuated some 17,000 people from Afghanistan since August 14, Pentagon informed on Saturday.
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."
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.
Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and took control of the presidential palace. Soon after the terror group claimed control over the Afghan capital, several countries started evacuating their diplomatic personnel and people from the country.
A Taliban commander at the Kabul airport said that at least 40 people were killed in shooting by the foreign forces and due to a stampede since Monday.
Afghans and aid organisations have said that citizens are having a hard time getting past the Taliban and into the airport, in a mass exodus triggered by the insurgents' rapid takeover of the country and its capital on Sunday.
All is not well within Afghanistan. Taliban have taken over the war-torn country. Vice-president Amrullah Saleh has declared himself as the "care-taker" president of the nation.
Pakistan’s state-run airline says it has halted all flights to Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul because of the “uncertain security situation” there.
"The death toll rose to 23 killed and 107 injured, including security forces and civilians," an official from the press office of the Ministry of Public Health told Efe on condition of anonymity.
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