New Delhi: Special repatriation flights from Afghanistan carry 94 Afghans, including 83 Sikh and Hinduism, in addition to 10 Indian citizens who reached here on Friday.
For many people, it is the end of the waiting that began on the day of the Taliban took over after the withdrawal of American troops and imposed limitations.
The Indian government has since been associated with the authorities in Afghanistan to bring to India all those stranded there.
Among the refugees, who arrived here on Friday, were three babies and even though they did not have a passport, the government facilitated their entries.
Toi has reported in August about the Indian government which facilitated the entry of four-month-old Iknoor Singh who did not have a passport when emergency evacuation was carried out through a heavy lift military transport aircraft C-17 from the Indian Air Force.
After a special flight from Kabul touched IGI Airport on Friday afternoon, a spokesman for MEA Arindam Bagchi said in Tweet: “Under Devi Shakti’s operation, a special air flight arranged by India has arrived in New Delhi from Kabul.
It has brought 10 India and 94 Afghans including members of the Afghan Hindu-Sikh Minority community.
Among the refugees are 9 children, including 3 babies .
Guru Granth Sahib is expected to be placed in Gurdwara Teacher Arjan Dev Ji in Mahavir Nagar and Hindu Scriptures brought from the fifth century Asamai temple in Kabul must be taken to the acidic in Faridabad.
The government last week told Lok Sabha that India had evacuated more than 565 people stranded from Afghanistan since August.
Puneet Singh Chandhok, President of the Indian World Forum that has coordinated the REPATIVATION AND Rehabilitation of SIKH and Hindu Afghanistan in India, said that in previous evacuations carried out by the Indian Air Force, 77 Afghanistan Sikh and Hindus were taken to India since August 15.
“Friday’s evacuation was the first because the Taliban formed their government.
83 Sikh and Hindus that have been arrived today are waiting with hope and anticipation since August come to India.
Officials in the MEA have worked continuously to allow this repatriation,” Chandhok added.