Some 150 Indian citizens who were kidnapped by the Taliban this morning have been released and are currently securely inside Kabul airport. They will be airlifted out of war-torn Afghanistan soon.
A top government official said Indian citizens waiting outside Kabul airport for evacuation planes were escorted to a neighboring police station for questioning and travel document checks, amid accusations in the local media that they had been abducted.
The Taliban’s ‘picking up’ of Indian citizens comes hours after an Air Force transport aircraft managed to evacuate around 85 Indians from Kabul; the plane has landed safely in Tajikistan, sources said, adding that a second aircraft is on standby in India. India has evacuated all embassy staff but an estimated 1,000 citizens remain in several Afghan cities and ascertaining their location and condition is proving to be a challenge.
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