With hundreds of Afghans rushing the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport desperate to flee the return of the Taliban, a young Afghan woman stood in limbo between two worlds.
The Taliban insurgents swept into Afghanistan's capital on Sunday after the government collapsed and president Ghani joined fellow citizens and foreigners to leave the country.
The situation in Afghanistan worsened further on Sunday, as Kabul was taken over by the Taliban. Further, President Ashraf Ghani along with National Security Adviser Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of President Fazel Mahmood Fazli left Afghanistan for Tajikistan.
At least 5 people were killed and several others were injured in firing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday.
Shortly after a video of a huge crowd jostling to get into an aircraft at Kabul airport flooded the social media on Monday, another unforeseen video splashed TV screens all over.
Randeep Surjewala said the situation in Afghanistan is extremely alarming and India's strategic interests are at stake.
Pakistan’s state-run airline says it has halted all flights to Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul because of the “uncertain security situation” there.
Senior Air India officials said the Afghanistan airspace has been declared "uncontrolled" by the Kabul airport on Monday.
The Chicago-Delhi flight will land in Sharjah for refuelling purposes, they said. The flight will then leave for Delhi again while avoiding the Afghan airspace.
At least 7 people were killed and several others were injured in firing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday. The incident took place when hundreds of people tried to forcibly enter planes leaving the Afghanistan capital. | IN PICS
The present situation in the country was well-defined in a video showing hundreds of people jostling to get into an airplane parked at the Kabul airport.
Two Air India aircraft have been put on standby for emergency evacuations from Kabul.
Taliban fighters deployed across Kabul, taking over abandoned police posts and pledging to maintain law and order during the transition.
There is uncertainty about the future of leadership in Afghanistan, once again, signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.
It is a tale of two armies, one poorly equipped but highly motivated ideologically, and the other nominally well-equipped, but dependent on NATO support, poorly led and riddled with corruption, Guardian reported.
Life in the capital of 6 million people rapidly deteriorated Sunday, just as it had across much of the country over the past several weeks amid a Taliban blitz that saw the group capture one provincial capital after another. Already, Kabul's parks were filling with internally displaced people — families who'd fled their homes as the Taliban seized control of their towns and targeted people.
The fear and panic gripping Kabul are palpable as the Taliban militant group marches on the capital following a devastating, months-long military offensive during which it has seized large swaths of the war-torn country.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country, TOLO News quoted sources saying on Sunday as the security situation worsens in Kabul with the advancing of Taliban in the city.
Officials said AI-243 departed from Delhi at around 12.45 PM (Indian Standard Time) and had to hover for around one hour above the Kabul airport as it did not get permission to land from the air traffic control (ATC). They stated it was not clear what was the reason for the delay in the permission for landing of AI-243.
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