After the Taliban took control of Kabul on August 15th, igniting a war-torn country, Indian commercial flights to Kabul were suspended.
the city of New Delhi in the Indian country Commercial flights between India and Afghanistan should be resumed, according to a letter from the Taliban to the DGCA (Kabul).
The Civil Aviation Ministry recently sent a letter from the hardliners to the DGCA for review.
The Kabul airport, which had been “damaged and dysfunctional by American troops prior to their withdrawal,” has reopened thanks to Qatari assistance, according to a letter sent to DGCA chief Arun Kumar, and a NOTAM (notice to pilots) was issued on September 6 to that effect.
“The purpose of this letter is to make passenger travel between Afghanistan and Pakistan as simple as possible, in accordance with the signed Memorandum of Understanding and our national airlines’ plans to begin scheduled flights. A CAA official has requested that commercial flights be permitted into Kabul “Alhaj Hameedullah Akhunzada, Acting Aviation Minister, wrote a letter.
When the Taliban took control of Kabul on August 15, all commercial flights from India to Kabul were grounded.
So far, only a few aid and passenger planes have left Kabul.
Pakistan International Airlines operated the first commercial flight into and out of Kabul in over a month on September 13.
According to Reuters, while a few more people have begun flying since then, prices remain high.
Only last week, the Taliban issued a similar appeal to other airlines, promising cooperation and claiming that all issues, including “damages” caused by the withdrawal of Western forces, had been resolved.
According to Taliban spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the cancellation of international flights has left Afghans stranded in foreign countries, preventing them from travelling for work or study.
“Now that the issues at Kabul International Airport have been resolved and the airport is fully operational for domestic and international flights,” he said, “the IEA assures all airlines of its full cooperation.”
He claimed that technical teams from Qatar and Turkey assisted with the repairs.
The Taliban have dubbed their new regime the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA).
Afghan police have also made a comeback in the last month, and they are now manning checkpoints alongside Taliban forces.
According to AFP, the Taliban, who claim to have granted general amnesty to everyone who worked for the previous regime, have summoned a police officer back to duty.
During the chaos that followed the Taliban takeover of Kabul, the airport was overrun by Afghans fleeing the city, as well as foreign nationals and humanitarian aid workers.
The Indian government collaborated with the Air Force and commercial airlines to organise a number of such flights, which brought hundreds of citizens, refugees, and foreigners home.
Several heartbreaking scenes occurred during the evacuation, including a US Marine lifting a baby over a razor wire-topped airport wall.
Suicide bombers targeted one of the airport’s gates, killing at least 60 people and leaving dozens of bodies strewn across a canal near the airport’s perimeter.
According to a statement, the attack was carried out under the auspices of ISIS.