Kabul airport (File)
New Delhi:
Round 150 folks, lots of whom are believed to be Indian residents, have been kidnapped by Taliban fighters from outdoors the gates of Kabul airport, based on experiences by native media.
The Overseas Ministry is making an attempt to substantiate this improvement and has not commented at the moment.
The reported abduction comes hours after an Indian Air Pressure C-130J transport plane managed to evacuate round 85 Indians from Kabul; the aircraft has landed safely in Dushanbe in Tajikistan, sources stated, including {that a} second (bigger C-17) plane was on standby for additional evacuations.
Sources this morning had stated that the federal government is making an attempt to carry as many Indians as potential into the airport at Kabul to maintain them secure whereas it really works out the evacuation logistics.
India has evacuated all embassy workers however an estimated 1,000 residents stay in a number of cities within the war-torn nation, and ascertaining their location and situation is proving to be a problem, a Residence Ministry official had stated, since not all of them registered themselves with the embassy.
Amongst these are round 200 Sikhs and Hindus who’ve taken refuge at a gurudwara in Kabul.
Late Wednesday a spokesperson for the Taliban – which appeared to be making an attempt to undertaking a extra reasonable picture – launched a video of the gurudwara head saying he had been assured of security.
The Taliban took efficient management of Afghanistan on Sunday, after President Ashraf Ghani fled and the group walked into capital Kabul with no opposition. This was after a staggeringly quick rout of main cities following 20 years of conflict that has claimed tons of of hundreds of lives.
Feared for its brutal and oppressive reign 20 years in the past, the group has tried to current a extra reasonable by claiming, for example, that ladies can have rights, together with to training and work, and that the media will likely be unbiased and free.
However violent response to protests – a number of had been killed after Taliban fighters opened fireplace – and information a feminine Afghan journalist has been barred from working – counsel the ‘reasonable’ stance might not final.