Kabul International Airport reopens for evacuation process

In Afghanistan,flight operations from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport has resumed operations on Tuesday. At a press conference by  US Pentagonon Tuesday morning, Major General Hank Taylor said, a C-17 aircraft landed with Marines aboard. The statement comes hours after the airport which is the only US-controlled territory in the Taliban-occupied Afghan capital was reportedly shut down as thousands of Afghans crowded the tarmac. Taylor said, about 2,500 US troops are on the ground in Kabul, and 3,000 to 3,500 will guard the airport within a day, out of the 6,000 troops authorized by US President Joe Biden. He said, the US military is preparing to evacuate hundreds of American diplomatic staffers who were transported from the Kabul embassy to the airport, and it plans to ramp up evacuations for American citizens and at-risk Afghans who worked for the United States in the last few days.

The US. on Monday, had to temporarily halt all evacuation flights from Kabul to clear people who had converged on the airfield. The Kabul airport was witness to heartbreaking scenes of thousands of people flooding the premises and even clinging to planes on the runway in a desperate bid to get out of the country.

Meanwhile, Indian Air Force Aircraft C-17 landed at Jamnagar Airbase with all Indian evacuees from Kabul in Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon. After refueling at Jamnagar Airbase of the Indian Air Force. the Air Craft  left foe Delhi.  According to sources, the District Collector of Jamnagar along with local leaders reached the Jamnagar Airbase and arranged lunch and other requirements for the evacuees. Sources said that the IAF C-17 heavy-lift aircraft reached Jamnagar after taking a longer route via Iran to avoid the Pakistan air space. IAF evacuated Indians from the Kabul Embassy including staff, ITBP soldiers, and others. A girl child with having a fever was treated at IAF medical facility within the Jamnagar airbase.