Viral videos show civilians thronging runways of Kabul airport a day after Taliban siege. One such video appeared to show 3 men falling to their death from a US Air Force airplane.
Senior Air India officials said the Afghanistan airspace has been declared ‘uncontrolled’ by the Kabul airport Monday and transit flights have been asked to avoid the airspace.
There has been a reprisal of killings, women being ordered from their workplaces into their homes and girls forbidden from attending school now that the Taliban are back in power.
Videos from Kabul airport show chaotic scenes of people thronging tarmac & departure areas, hoping to get on a flight leaving Afghanistan. US says 6,000 troops will aid its evacuation efforts.
In exclusive interview to ThePrint in Kabul, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is part of a committee to oversee transition of power to Taliban, says elections are the way forward, calls US entry & exit in Afghanistan a blunder.
The Taliban entered the Afghan capital Kabul from all sides on Sunday. Taliban commanders say they have taken control of Afghan presidential palace, ANI, quoting Reuters, added.
While it is unclear when Indian officials will be evacuated from Afghanistan, a fleet of Indian Air Force's C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft is on standby to undertake evacuation missions.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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