New Delhi: In what it seems that the correction of the course after the Rangina Kargar episode, India has allowed five Afghans, including the former Governor of Afghan Province who had a diplomatic passport to the country.
The decision came several days after India deported Afghan parliamentarians, a step that invited criticism at home and circling diplomatic globally.
According to senior official, who confirmed that a week ago five people including families who had a diplomatic passport Afghanistan arrived in Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport from Dubai.
Their arrival was informed to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and entered the cleaned country.
“A senior doctor with the Afghan government arrived with his wife and two children and Governor of Samangan Mohammad Dawood Konawry,” said the official, added that because all flights to Afghanistan had been stopped from India, they all first went to Iran and finally arrived in Dubai and Finally arrived in Delhi.
Diplomatic / official passport facilitates visa-free trips under reciprocal arrangements with India for 30 days.
On July 20, Rangina Kargar, a member of Wolesi Jirga where he represented Farab Province has claimed that on his arrival at Igi Airport from Istanbul with Dubai flying flights, he was not allowed to get out of the airport even though he held diplomatic.
passport.
After the incident, the closed secretary level officer at the Union of the Ministry of External Affairs had apologized to him for the incident and offered him an emergency visa.
The official added that after the episode of Kargar, instructions were issued on diplomatic passport holders and allowed them to be bothered to the country.