A constitution aircraft carrying some 200 foreigners has landed within the Qatari capital Doha, after leaving Afghanistan”s capital Kabul earlier on Thursday. It was the primary such large-scale departure since US and different forces accomplished their frantic withdrawal on the finish of August.
The Qatar Airways flight to Doha marked a breakthrough within the bumpy coordination between the US and Afghanistan’s new rulers. It was the primary of its form because the large airlift enabled the evacuation of tens of hundreds of individuals within the wake of the Taliban’s return to energy.
The passengers included round 100 Individuals, the White Home mentioned. US inexperienced card holders and different nationalities together with Britons, Germans, Hungarians and Canadians are additionally mentioned to have been on the flight.
TV photos filmed by Al Jazeera at Kabul airport confirmed households together with ladies, youngsters and aged individuals, ready to board with their baggage.
Qatar and Turkey have intensified efforts in latest days to get the Afghan capital’s airport up and working once more, specifically to allow humanitarian support operations to renew.
“We hope that within the close to future the airport will probably be prepared for every kind of economic flights,” mentioned Taliban authorities spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
“I can clearly say that this can be a historic day within the historical past of Afghanistan as Kabul airport is now operational,” mentioned Qatari particular envoy Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, including that one other business flight would go away on Friday.
A international diplomat, talking on situation of anonymity, mentioned one other 200 foreigners together with Individuals would depart within the subsequent couple of days.
The previous few days have seen a stand-off over constitution planes at one other airport, that left dozens of passengers stranded and solid doubt on Taliban assurances to permit foreigners and Afghans with correct journey paperwork to depart the nation.
It stays unsure what the resumption of worldwide flights will imply for the tens of hundreds of Afghans determined to flee Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders over fears of what their rule will maintain.
The departure of Western troops was accompanied by scenes of chaos as hundreds tried to flee the Taliban. Photos of Afghans plunging to their deaths after clinging to army plane, and a suicide bombing that killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, got here to outline the fraught finish to America’s two-decade battle.
