How India Evacuated Its Embassy, Which Was Under Taliban’s Observation

Two Indian Air Pressure C-17 transports flew into Kabul on August 15 to evacuate Indian embassy personnel, together with Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel who defend the mission, sources have stated. Particulars of the difficult and troublesome circumstances beneath which the Indian mission employees have been evacuated have now emerged.

The safety scenario within the intervening night time of August 15-16 deteriorated sharply and no evacuations grew to become attainable then, sources stated. The Indian embassy was reportedly additionally beneath remark by the Taliban, and the high-security Inexperienced Zone – the closely fortified district that homes most embassies and worldwide organisations – was breached.

The Taliban raided the Shahir Visa Company, which processes visas for Afghans trying to journey to India, sources stated.

The primary batch of 45 Indian personnel who have been evacuated on the primary IAF plane yesterday have been initially stopped by Taliban sentries on their solution to the airport, they stated.

The private belongings of some Indian employees members have been taken away by the Taliban as they proceeded to the airport, sources have stated.

Chaos unfolded at Kabul airport yesterday when 1000’s got here there hoping to catch a flight out

The primary Indian transport plane that left Kabul yesterday took off beneath very difficult circumstances given the chaos at Kabul airport the place 1000’s of determined Afghans had arrived within the hope of flying in a foreign country.

The remaining members of the Indian diplomatic and safety contingent have been unable to evacuate yesterday for the reason that path to the airport was closed and there have been mobs on the airport.

An in a single day dialog between the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and International Minister S Jaishankar could have helped in transferring the Indian personnel to Kabul airport this morning.

#WATCH | Indian Air Pressure C-17 plane that took off from Kabul, Afghanistan with Indian officers, lands in Jamnagar, Gujarat. pic.twitter.com/1w3HFYef6b

— ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2021

All of the remaining Indian mission members – over 120 of them – together with Ambassador Rudrendra Tandon, boarded the second IAF C-17 and safely left Afghan airspace this morning and landed in Gujarat’s Jamnagar.

“Your welcome has an influence on all of us. Thanks to the Indian Air Pressure who flew us out beneath situations that aren’t regular,” India’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Rudrendra Tandon, stated after touchdown at Jamnagar.