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Tens of thousands of citizens from several provinces of Afghanistan, had fled to escape battles that have overwhelmed their towns and villages and had taken shelter at Shahr-e-Naw Park. "I am saying this with whole responsibility that hundreds of women who had sheltered at Shahr-e-Naw Park are missing." He told.

Jaishankar tweeted after the call on Monday that while discussing the latest developments in Afghanistan he "underlined the urgency of restoring airport operations in Kabul. Deeply appreciate the American efforts underway in this regard". The airport is under US control after President Joe Biden rushed thousands of Army and Marine troops there last week.

According to Tolo news, 18 passenger planes took off from Kabul to Tajikistan while 28 flights landed in Uzbekistan's southernmost city of Termez on Sunday evening when Taliban fighters were entering the Afghan capital. Most of the passengers were Afghan nationals, including airport and aviation sector employees, the TV channel said.

A high-ranking official of the Taliban told TOLOnews that their leadership is busy in discussions in Doha and is in contact with the international community and political parties within Afghanistan. The Taliban's political deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said that the current moment is a test for the Taliban." At this time, we face a test because now we are responsible for the security of the people," Baradar said.

The Taliban effectively sealed their control of Afghanistan on Sunday, pouring into the capital city of Kabul without facing any resistance even as Ghani fled the country and the government collapsed. It was initially reported that Ghani along with national security advisor Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of the President, Fazel Mahmood Fazli, left Afghanistan for Tajikistan, but Dushanbe denied that.

A city that only 48 hours ago was jam-packed with cars and hundreds of people lining up outside banks, visa processing offices and travel agencies, has come to a near standstill, Al Jazeera reported. Remnants of the Western-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, built over 20 years of international support, linger. The dividers and K9 cages of police checkpoints are still standing, but unmanned.

Afghan citizens said that Ghani has 'in fact sold Afghanistan to the Taliban' and fled the country leaving the citizens to their own fate. They said that the Afghan soldiers wanted to fight the Taliban, but Ghani always discouraged them. The Taliban have captured the whole of Afghanistan after targeting one province after another and the government allowed them asking the soldiers to maintain calm and peace.

The Indian embassy in Kabul has been functioning with reduced staff strength. "The ITBP personnel deployed for the security of the Indian embassy in Kabul to stay there as some of the embassy officials are still there and they will return along with them", the officials said. The situation has aggravated in the war-torn country in the wake of its President Ashraf Ghani and his colleagues leaving Afghanistan on Sunday.

National Security Council (NSC) meeting was organized on Monday. Apparently the discussion was " whether Pakistan should recognise the Taliban as they have taken over Afghanistan" leading to the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government. Of course this is window dressing. Recognition of a Taliban government by Pakistan is a foregone conclusion.

In the videos, a number of people are seen apparently sitting on the side of the US military transport plane as it moves down the runway, while crowds run alongside, BBC reported. According to some reports, which have also not been confirmed, at least two people were killed after falling from a plane after it had taken off.