Ready to speak to Taliban: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
World | August 20, 2021 8:50 IST"I'm ready to speak myself when it is clear with whom should I speak, for what purpose," he said on Thursday at a briefing for reporters.
"I'm ready to speak myself when it is clear with whom should I speak, for what purpose," he said on Thursday at a briefing for reporters.
Shocking visuals from Kabul airport today: Women, children screamed as Taliban started indiscriminate firing. Afghan women in India TV studio narrated ordeals they went through, while escaping from Kabul. for more Watch Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma on india tv.
Afghanistan Latest News: Although the Taliban promised safe passage to the Kabul airport for people trying to flee the country, there have been incidents of violence at the checkpoints on airport roads. Photographs of women and children being beaten and whipped by the Taliban fighters have surfaced showing the brutal face of the insurgents. Reports of civilians - women and children - being beaten, houses being ransacked have been pouring in since August 15 - the day the Taliban seized control of capital Kabul.
Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and took control of the presidential palace. Soon after the terror group claimed control over the Afghan capital, several countries started evacuating their diplomatic personnel and people from the country.
A Taliban commander at the Kabul airport said that at least 40 people were killed in shooting by the foreign forces and due to a stampede since Monday.
Afghans and aid organisations have said that citizens are having a hard time getting past the Taliban and into the airport, in a mass exodus triggered by the insurgents' rapid takeover of the country and its capital on Sunday.
All is not well within Afghanistan. Taliban have taken over the war-torn country. Vice-president Amrullah Saleh has declared himself as the "care-taker" president of the nation.
Pakistan’s state-run airline says it has halted all flights to Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul because of the “uncertain security situation” there.
"The death toll rose to 23 killed and 107 injured, including security forces and civilians," an official from the press office of the Ministry of Public Health told Efe on condition of anonymity.
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