: IAF plane with 35 evacuees from Kabul lands at Hindon #IndiaNEWS #National New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) plane, C-17 Globemaster carrying 35 evacuees from Kabul, landed at the Hindon Air Force

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IAF plane with 35 evacuees from Kabul lands at Hindon #IndiaNEWS #National
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) plane, C-17 Globemaster carrying 35 evacuees from Kabul, landed at the Hindon Air Force Station in Ghaziabad Thursday.
The 35 evacuees comprised 24 Indian and 11 Nepali nationals.
All the evacuees will be taken by ITBP buses from the airport to a quarantine centre at Chhawala.
India has continued the air rescue operation, named as Ops Devi Shakti, from Kabul, as well as from other countries like Qatar and Tajikistan. Indian officials are making all round efforts to evacuate not only Indians but Afghan nationals too.
The operation was announced by the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar August 24.
A Special Afghan Cell was set up on August 16 to coordinate repatriation and other requests from Afghanistan in a streamlined manner, Jaishankar in an all party meet held Thursday.
As per evacuation data shared by Jaishankar, a total of 175 embassy personnel 263 other Indian nationals, 112 Afghan nationals including Hindus and Sikhs, 15 third country nationals have been evacuated so far.
He said that a total of 565 persons have been evacuated so far.
The Central government has also facilitated the evacuation of Indians by other agencies.
These evacuees have been brought to New Delhi from various routes such as Doha in Qatar, Dushanbe in Tajikistan and other neighbouring countries in special flights of Air India and some private carrier too.
IANS

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