{"id":169793,"date":"2021-08-22T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169793"},"modified":"2021-08-22T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:53:46","slug":"eam-jaishankar-speaks-to-german-counterpart-on-evacuation-challenges-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/22\/eam-jaishankar-speaks-to-german-counterpart-on-evacuation-challenges-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"EAM Jaishankar speaks to German counterpart on evacuation challenges in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday spoke to his German counterpart Heiko Maas on the latest developments in Afghanistan and challenges relating to emergency evacuation from Kabul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Appreciate the call from Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas of Germany. Discussed the evacuation challenges in Afghanistan and the policy implications of the changes there,&#8221; Jaishankar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India has been in touch with the US, the UK and a number of other leading powers on the fast-evolving situation in Afghanistan after Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several countries including India have been facing difficulties in evacuating people from Kabul in view of chaos around the airport in the Afghan capital following the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India on Saturday evacuated around 80 Indian nationals from Kabul by a transport military aircraft of the Indian Air Force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aircraft landed at Dushanbe in Tajikistan after evacuating the Indians from Kabul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Tuesday, India had evacuated 200 people, including the Indian envoy and other staffers of its embassy in Kabul, in two C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft of the IAF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first evacuation flight brought back over 40 people, mostly staffers at the Indian embassy, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second C-17 aircraft evacuated around 150 people including Indian diplomats, officials, security personnel and some stranded Indians from Kabul on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday spoke to his German counterpart Heiko Maas on the latest developments in Afghanistan and challenges relating to emergency evacuation from Kabul. &#8220;Appreciate the call from Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas of Germany. Discussed the evacuation challenges in Afghanistan and the policy implications of the changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}