Qatar Airways flight QR578 with 30 Indian passengers reached Delhi from Doha at 1.55 am on Monday. Another Air India flight, AI 972, also reached Delhi from Doha, which includes a person coming from Afghanistan. In total, at least 146 people stranded in Afghanistan will reach India today. India Sunday evacuated 168 people, including 107 Indians, from Kabul in a military transport aircraft of the IAF. Separately, a group of 135 Indians, who were earlier evacuated from Kabul to Doha in the last few days by the US and NATO, also returned to India.
The US military is considering “creative ways” to get Americans and others into the Kabul airport for evacuation from Afghanistan amid “acute” security threats, Biden administration officials said, and the Pentagon on Sunday ordered six US commercial airlines to help move evacuees from temporary sites outside of Afghanistan.
“The threat is real, it is acute, it is persistent and something we’re focused on with every tool in our arsenal,” said Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.
Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that 3,900 people had been airlifted out of Kabul on US military flights over the past 24 hours. A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made public, said those people were flown on a total of 23 flights — 14 by C-17 transports and nine aboard C-130 cargo planes.
