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| Over 280 Indians waiting to fly back from Afghanistan, says Kashmiri professor | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 20: Over 280 Indians, including about 100 women, have been waiting in a hall for the past 24 hours to fly back from Afghanistan, a Kashmiri professor said on Friday from Afghanistan.
“We were informed on social media to reach to a wedding hall by a person coordinating with Indian nationals to help them fly back to their country from Afghanistan,” Asif working in an Afghan university said.
He said though shops and business establishments are open outside the wedding hall, but they are not being permitted to move out by the guards posted at the main gate for security reasons. “We also did not tried to go out fearing some trouble,” he added.
Prof Asif said they were contacted on social media and after getting registered they were taken from University hostel to the wedding hall, which is just five or six kms from the Airport under proper security arrangements. “During the past 24 hours, we were asked to be ready to fly back to India which did not mature so far,” he said. “We were felt more safe in university hostel,” he said, adding other Indians were also brought to the wedding hall from different Afghan cities.
About the meals, he said members of Sikh community brought biscuits and other dry food and distributed among the stranded Indians. “At least four times we were asked to get ready to fly back... but each time there was some problem. Now finally we were informed that there was hardly any chance on Friday and most probably the return journey to India will take place on Saturday,” he added.
J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had on Tuesday assured that the two Kashmiri professors, who are stuck in Afghanistan after the country was taken over by Taliban, are safe and will soon be brought back.
Sinha had said that he spoke to Minister of State (MoS) Foreign Affairs V Muraleedharan and sought immediate evacuation of the two professors from Kulgam teaching in a Kabul university in Afghanistan. “Spoke to MoS Foreign Affairs, V Muraleedharan for immediate evacuation of professors from Kulgam teaching at Bakhtar University in Kabul. He has assured the government is committed to bring back every citizen safely as soon as possible,” he tweeted.
“I assure the families of Prof Asif Ahmed and Prof Adil Rasool that they are safe and will be home soon,” he wrote.
Thousands of Afghan nationals have thronged Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to leave after the country was taken over by Taliban.
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