All roads deserted in Kabul except one leading to airport: Reports

Amid the ongoing unrest chaos and tension in Afghanistan three planes and an Indian Air Force IAF transport aircraft carrying Indian nationals arrived at Delhis IGI Airport and Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad respectively on SundayZaffer Sherrif who was working at the NATO base in Kabul airport said all roads in Kabul looked deserted except the one leading to the airport which was choked with heavy traffic as people were in a hurry to leave the countryWe got the information about Taliban that had captured Jalalabad city around 40 km from Kabul on August 16 morning After some hours again we were informed that Taliban had entered into the city and local Talibanis began coming inside the airportAround thousands of Talibanis sat on the runway to disrupt the flight operation and started covershot Later we were evacuated to Doha from where we have reached India he saidIndia on Sunday evacuated 168 passengers including 107 Indian nationals through Indian Air Forces C17 aircraft that landed at IAFs Hindon Air BaseAlso read Afghan baby reunited with family says USAn Air India flight carrying 87 Indians also landed at Delhis IGI Airport on Sunday along with two other private airlines from different locationsOne more flight carrying Indian nationals is expected to land said an officialAnother returnee Jagadeesha who also was working at NATO base in Kabul said We felt safer inside the base The embassy helped us in getting airlifted to Doha from where with Indian embassys help we have reached hereEven as the flights carrying Indian nationals landed in early morning at the IGI airport the checkout was delayed by many hours due to the Covidrelated formalities All the evacuees had to undergo RTPCR testsHealth Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted on Sunday morning sharing a photo of the ongoing vaccination of the evacuees at the Delhi airportHe tweeted We have decided to vaccinate Afghanistan returnees with free Polio Vaccine OPV amp fIPV as a preventive measure against Wild Polio Virus Congratulations to the Health Team for their efforts to ensure public health Take a look at the vaccine drive at Delhi International AirportPolio has not yet been eradicated in Afghanistan and PakistanMeanwhile the Ministry of External Affairs has said the government is committed to the safe return of all Indian nationals from AfghanistanThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever