NewsGate Press Network

Exactly a week after Taliban overran Afghanistan, the Sunday morning on 22 August began on a bright note  – India evacuated 168 people from Kabul including 107 of its trapped nationals by a special IAF’s C-17 Globemaster military flight.

All of them landed safely at the Hindon Air Base (Ghaziabad) in the NCR.

Another batch  of 87 Indians and two Nepalese nationals who were flown in, first, to Dushanbe (Tajikistan) by an IAF C-130 Hercules from Kabul on Saturday evening, have also reached Delhi on Sunday morning by a special Indigo flight operating from Doha, Qatar.

All evacuated were being put through RT-PCR Covid19 test screening before being exited from the IGI Airport at Palam.

Many passenger told waiting media persons that situation in Afghan capital is deteriorating fast as more than a dozen warlords owing allegiance to various shades of Taliban had taken control of all roads in Kabul erecting their own checkpoints at each intersections.

All access points leading to the Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) are clogged.

It was becoming increasingly difficult to negotiate and safely walk pass through each different Taliban faction pointing guns at a new road block in the Afghanistan’s  Capital city.

Various media reports stated that US had to deploy its big sized Chinook helicopters to evacuate trapped citizens from a hotel just 200 yards away from HKIA as roads were blocked.

The air traffic to-and-fro from Kabul is controlled by US forces.