Afghan embassy shut in Delhi, to function just as emergency consular
The staff at the Embassy was appointed by the outgoing government of Ashraf Ghani but now the country is under Taliban regime
The staff at the Embassy was appointed by the outgoing government of Ashraf Ghani but now the country is under Taliban regime
Indians will not fail to miss the irony inherent in the message delivered over the weekend by Pakistan’s defence minister Khwaja Asif to the Taliban regime that rules Afghanistan.
The Taliban-led caretaker government in Afghanistan has dismissed Washington's claim over the alleged stronger presence of Daesh or Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan as utterly fabricated.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan on Thursday said that a
Last month, President Biden annoyed Pakistanis when he described their country as "one of the most dangerous nations in the world" that possessed nuclear weapons without any 'cohesion'.
Nikita Ishchenko, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Kabul, was quoted as saying by RIA: "Four cars were full of money, they tried to stuff another part of the money into a helicopter, but not all of it fit. And some of the money was left lying on the tarmac."
The Indian government has already evacuated the majority of its officials from there, anticipating the Taliban advance into Kabul and also advised all Indian citizens to leave the country at the earliest.
Thousands of Afghans, fearing a return to Taliban rule, are trying to flee the country through Kabul’s international airport.
The passengers also included diplomats and security officials posted in the Indian Embassy in Kabul.
Educated Afghan women have some of the most to lose under the fundamentalist Taliban, whose past government, overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, sought to largely confine women to the home.
