Kabul: around 200 foreigners, including Americans, flew out of Afghanistan with international commercial flights from Kabul airport on Thursday, the first large-scale departure since we and foreign forces concluded their panic withdrawals at the end of last month.
Qatar Airways flights to Doha mark a significant breakthrough in the corrugated coordination between the new Taliban rulers of the US and Afghanistan.
The daylong defense of the charter aircraft at another airport has left dozens of passengers stranded and doubt the Taliban guarantee to allow foreigners and Afghans with the right travel documents to leave the country.
A senior US official, who spoke with anonymous conditions because he was not authorized to warn the media, provided the number of Westerners on the ship and said that two very senior Taliban officials had helped facilitate departure.
Americans, green card holders and other countries including Germany, Hungary and Canada are on a flight, the official said.
When the Taliban authorities patrolled, the passengers presented their documents to check, and the sniffer dogs inspected luggage on the ground.
Some veteran airport workers have returned to their jobs after escaping during the terrible chaos of US airlift led.
Irfan Popalzai, 12, among them boarded a plane with the mother and five brothers and women, said her family lived in Maryland.
“I am a Afghanistan, but you know me from America and I am very excited (to leave),” he said.
As a group prepared to rise before, Qatar officials gathered at Tarmak Kabul Airport to announce the airport was ready to resume international commercial flights after day-to-day repairs.
Extensive damage to the travel center in the last days of Frenzied from US airlift which was evacuated by more than 100,000 people from the country had asked questions about how quickly transportation hubs can be continued with regular commercial flights.
Technical experts from Qatar and Turkey have competed to recover operations.
“I can clearly say that this is a historic day in the history of Afghanistan because Kabul airport is now operating,” Qatar Special Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani.
“Just say what you want, rented or commercial flights, everyone has tickets and tickets up,” Al-Qahtani added, noting that other commercial flights would take off on Friday.
“Hopefully, life becomes normal in Afghanistan.” The flight represents the first departing from Kabul Airport because American forces left the country at the end of August, their departure was accompanied by airlift the home tens of thousands of foreigners and Afghanistan escaped from the Taliban.
The scene of chaos, including the Afghans plunged into their deaths after clinging to military planes that took off and suicide bombings that killed 169 Afghanistan and 13 members of US services, came to define the tip full of war two decades of America.
Foreign diplomats, also spoke with anonymous requirements because he was not authorized to give media direction, said 200 other foreigners, including Americans, would depart in the next few days.
It remains uncertain what the results of resuming international flights for the next few days for tens of thousands of Afghans who are desperate to escape from the new Taliban leaders of Afghanistan for concerns about what their rules will be held.
Hundreds of other Afghans are at risk after the Taliban takeover because their past work with Americans has gathered for more than a week in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, waiting for permission to ride evacuation flights that are leased privately abroad.
Even though the Taliban convinced the world they would let passengers with a legitimate travel document to leave the country, many of them were stranded at the North Airport did not have such letters.