Stranded in Kabul and Indians to be sent back today: 10 points

Sources said Indians inside the Kabul airport are likely to be taken back on Sunday, while around 85 Indian nationals who were rescued and taken to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, will be flown to New Delhi overnight by an Air India aircraft. Many rescued Indians will also come to India on Vistara and Indigo flights from UAE.

Earlier, Indian nationals waiting for evacuation flights outside Kabul airport were taken to a nearby police station for questioning and checking travel documents, a top government source said, amid worrying reports from local media that He was kidnapped.

Taliban’s ‘lifting’ of Indian citizens comes hours after Air Force transport plane About 85 Indians managed to evacuate from Kabuli; Sources said the plane landed safely in Tajikistan Another plane is on standby in India.

Sources said on Saturday morning the government is trying to bring as many Indians as possible to the Kabul airport to keep them safe while it handles the evacuation logistics.

IIndia has evacuated all embassy staff but an estimated 1,000 civilians remain In many Afghan cities and tracing their location and status is proving to be a challenge, the interior ministry has said.

These include about 200 Sikhs and Hindus in a gurdwara in Kabul. Late on Wednesday a spokesman for the Taliban – who is trying to project a more liberal image – released A video of the Gurdwara chief saying he was assured of security.

separate political office Taliban also sent a message to Delhi urging the evacuation of the embassy staff, adding that India has nothing to fear for their safety.

However, a few days before those ‘outreach’ messages Sources said Taliban forces had entered at least two consulates of India, “ravaged” offices and took documents and parked vehicles. A senior official told NDTV, “We expected it…”

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said this week The government is monitoring the situation “very carefully” in Kabul and Afghanistan, but the immediate focus is on the safe evacuation of all civilians. Asked what India’s plan was to deal with the Taliban leadership, he said it was still early days and did not comment on whether the government was in touch with the group.

NS Taliban captured Afghanistan on Sunday, after President Ashraf Ghani fled and the group moved to Kabul without protest. This was followed by a surprisingly fast passage of major cities after two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.