Qatar Ambassador to China Afghanistan According to Qatar’s Al Jazeera News Channel, a technical team was able to reopen Kabul Airport to receive assistance. The channel also quoted its reporter as saying that domestic flights had been restarted.
According to a report by Al Jazeera, the ambassador said that the airport’s runway has been repaired in cooperation with the Afghan authorities. The channel said there were two domestic flights from Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif and Kandahar.
Kabul airport is closed, Afghans are afraid of Taliban retaliation and rush to the border
Since the US-led large-scale airlift of its citizens, other Western nationals and Afghans helping Western countries ended, Kabul Airport has been closed. The end of that operation marked the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
In the two-year war following the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, the Western adversary, the Islamic militant group Taliban, quickly took over Afghanistan and tens of thousands of people evacuated.
When the evacuation ended at the end of August, thousands of people who were afraid of life under the Taliban who wanted to leave Afghanistan were left behind. The Taliban promised to allow safe passage for those who want to leave.
Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said at a joint press conference in Doha on Thursday with British Foreign Secretary Dominique Raab that the Gulf country is working with the Taliban. Talk and cooperate with Turkey to seek potential technical support to restart the business airport in Kabul.
(Reporting by Yousef Saba; Editing by Mark Potter, Editing by William Maclean)
