IAF evacuates 90 Indians nationals from Kabul

Mangalore Today News Network

Kabul, Aug 21, 2021: The Indian Air Force (IAF) continues to provide assistance to the Indians stranded in Kabul. C-130J transport aircraft took off from Kabul with around 90 Indians.

 

“The C-130J transport aircraft took off from Kabul with around 90 Indian nationals and landed in Tajikistan for refuelling,” sources told India Today.

The Indian government has also sent its officials to Kabul airport to help in the evacuation of Indian citizens there, the sources said. India had earlier also picked up its consulate staff from Kandahar after the town was about to be taken over by the Taliban.

The Indian officials from the Kandahar consulate had later stationed themselves in the Kabul embassy and were overseeing work from there, the sources had said.

After the capture of the Afghanistan capital Kabul earlier this week, the Indian Air Force operated two sorties of the C-17 Globemaster after getting clearance from the US forces at the airport there and brought back around 180 officials, ITBP staffers, and a few journalists.

The Indian Air Force(IAF) has already evacuated about 180 Indian passengers.

The Afghanistan government collapsed on August 15 with President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country and the Taliban’s entry into the capital. Taliban leaders have been discussing future government plans in Doha after gaining control of Kabul and seizing the presidential palace in Afghanistan’s capital.

Courtesy:India Today