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Aircraft from the Indian Air Force's C-17 and C-130J returned from Afghanistan evacuation operations

After assisting within the evacuation of more than 500 Indians from Afghanistan, Indian Air Force (IAF) shipping plane have lower back to their respective home bases in the usa.


The Indian Air Force had deployed its C-17 Globemasters and C-130J Super Hercules plane for evacuation operations of Indians caught in Afghanistan, which is now beneath the reins of the Taliban.



"The C-17 and C-130J plane have back to their respective bases after deployment in Tajikistan and Afghanistan for human beings caught in Kabul and other cities of the conflict-torn usa," assets instructed ANI.


India had stationed some of its planes in Dushanbe on the Ayni airbase there. A C-130J turned into extensively utilized to carry passengers from Kabul to Dushanbe from where they have been flown back to India.


IAF plane had been extensively utilized for evacuating Indian officers stuck in Mazar-e-Sharif and Kandahar consulates.


The operations after the takeover of Kabul by way of the Taliban had been also executed below extreme situations because the runway had to be cleared for the aircraft to take off.


The Garud commandos of the Air Force had joined palms with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel being evacuated from there to clean the direction for allowing the C-17 to take off with the Indian officials such as the Ambassador there, sources said.


"Aircraft from Air India have been also used for bringing back human beings from Afghanistan to India. We have evacuated over 550 human beings in six separate flights, either from Kabul or Dushanbe. Of these, over 260 had been Indians. The authorities of India additionally facilitated the evacuation of Indian nationals thru different corporations. We had been in touch with diverse countries, just like the US, Tajikistan," a Foreign Ministry spokesperson had said multiple days in the past.


The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said that the Indian government is committed to the secure return of all Indian nationals from Afghanistan.


Afghanistan's scenario is worsening as humans are in rush to leave the kingdom after the Taliban seized manage in advance this month. On August 15, the u . S . A .'s government fell, soon after President Ashraf Ghani left the country.

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