Either we had to approach our government to evacuate us or depend on the agency’s evacuation plan,” he added. It was a very risky affair for us to go to the chaotic Kabul airport that time. But there was no commercial flight operating from Afghanistan at that point of time. “We were instructed to leave the country at any time. The official said they sensed trouble after the Taliban captured several provinces of the country. And they took over the country within a few days surprising many,” he added. But the Taliban group started capturing provinces one by one in a very organised way earlier this month. “Earlier, people were not taking it seriously because they were adapted to such a chaotic situation before. He said the country was witnessing isolated cases of violent incidents like bombing. That’s why they want to come to India,” he added. Common people in Afghanistan are very nice and innocent.
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“I had also visited this country before in 2018-19. Bhanja, a Bhubaneswar resident, has been working in Afghanistan during the last one and a half years as a programme policy advisor of the UN’s World Food Programme ( WFP). He told TOI about his experience in Afghanistan during the last few weeks of turmoil. BHUBANESWAR: Dilip Kumar Bhanja, UN official and a native of Odisha, who returned from Afghanistan on Sunday, expressed his concern for the Indians staying in the war-ravaged country controlled by Taliban.