Rajkot: Emergency – India Air Force C-17 Aircraft Weightlifting – Submitted by the United States to evacuate Indians and diplomats trapped in Afghanistan who were torn with a dispute back with around 150 passengers from Kabul and landed in the morning Jamnagar to refuel.
The plane took home the Indian diplomat including the Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Rudrendra Tandon, who stated his extraordinary relief because he could return home safely.
“You can’t imagine how great it returns home,” said Tandon, while talking to the media and added that all efforts to bring every Indian citizen will be back safely.
He also said that India was also worried about Afghanistan’s welfare.
Talk to Toi, Jamnagar District collector.
PS Zamsingh said, “There were staff of military forces, diplomats, civilians including PSU employees on the plane that landed around 11:15 a.m..
Passengers from two different aircraft flying to Delhi around 4pm.
We welcome them with food and drinks.” Para Passengers were turned on by administrative officials and local politicians while the audience shouted ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.
During his stopover in Jamnagar, Tandon spoke with media people and said that the situation in Kabul was complex and “quite liquid”.
He said that all mission personnel including employees of the Indian Embassy and Air India were evacuated from Afghanistan in the last three days in two phases.
“Indian citizens who live in Afghanistan are in trouble because the situation changes fast.
Anyone who reaches the embassy is taken inside and provides security and roads to come out,” said Tandon, added that all evacuation programs were monitored at the highest level.
Regarding the Afghans, Tandon said that India had not left them.
“We are very worried about their welfare and our old relations with them remain strong.
In the future, we will try and continue to interact with them, even though I cannot say in what form and way, because the situation changes continuously.
However, we continue Monitoring the situation because we still have some citizens of our country in the country and Air India will continue to run its commercial services to Kabul during the function of Kabul Airport, “he said, adding that the external ministry had done it opened an operational assistance desk.
Indian Temporary water has suspended services to Kabul, the situation does not allow commercial flights to operate.
While appreciating the hospitality in Jamnagar, Tandon shares that the Indian embassy does not have the right detail about how much more Indians may still be trapped there because these people are not registered with the embassy.
“Passengers were given lunch after landing in Jamnagar,” said MOS Food and Dharmendrasinh Jadeja’s civil supply.
In the release, the Gujarat government said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “personally overseeing the evacuation of Indian citizens and stranded officials in Afghanistan”.