"Radical existence is never permanent as they cannot suppress humanity forever” -Modi :::::: US evacuated 204 employees of New York Times, Washington Post and WS Journal

“Forces that strive for destruction and those who follow the ideology of creating empires out of terror can dominate for some time, but their existence is never permanent as they cannot suppress humanity forever,” - PM Narendra Modi 

The deadline (Aug 31) “is contributing to the chaos and the panic at the airport because you have Afghans who think that they have 10 days to get out of this country or that door is closing forever,” said Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., who served in Iraq and also worked in Afghanistan to help aid workers provide humanitarian relief.

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Joe Biden said it would not be necessary for the US to send troops into central Kabul to extract Americans unable to get to the airport.

 “We’ve made an agreement with the Taliban”.

The US have evacuated all 204 employees of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden said. 

Biden’s personal approval rating dropped 7 percentage points in an Ipsos/Reuters poll announced on Monday, to 46% from 53%, the previous week. 

This is his lowest rating in the Ipsos/Reuters weekly poll so far, and came amidst the collapse of the Afghanistan government, return of the Taliban and the evacuation crisis that played out in full public view.

“This is one of the largest, most difficult air lifts in history, and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of the world with this degree of precision is the United States of America,” Biden said. 

Flights out of Kabul were paused this morning to make sure the US could “progress evacuees at their transit points” but flights have now resumed.

The US had evacuated all 204 employees of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, he added.

He was in the business of selling blankets in Nagpur and is now a gun-totting Taliban foot-soldier.

Noor Mohammad's original name is Abdul Haque and his brother was working with the Taliban. 

Noor had shared a video on social media with a sharp-edged weapon in 2020

President Biden has said the US has made “significant progress” with evacuation efforts in Afghanistan.

More than 18,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since July and about 13,000 since the US military lift started on August 14.

Some 5,700 evacuees left the airport yesterday, Biden told journalists on Friday.

Biden helplessly is counting on cooperation from the Taliban, the Islamist militant group that the United States fought for 20 years in Afghanistan. The Taliban ousted the Kabul government a week ago as U.S. forces withdrew, plunging Biden into his biggest foreign policy crisis.

In July, more than 20 diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul registered their concerns that the evacuation of Afghans who had worked for America was not proceeding quickly enough, says AP news agency.

In a cable sent through the State Department’s dissent channel, a time-honored method for foreign service officers to register opposition to administration policies, the diplomats said the situation on the ground was dire, that the Taliban would likely seize control of the capital within months of the Aug. 31 pullout, and urged the Biden administration to immediately begin a concerted evacuation effort. That’s according to officials familiar with the document who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal debate.

Biden has said that the chaos that unfolded as part of the withdrawal was inevitable as the nearly 20-year war came to an end. He said he was following the advice of Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed president, Ashraf Ghani, in not earlier expanding U.S. efforts to fly out translators and other Afghans in danger for the past work with Americans.

Man 'deported' from Nagpur is now a Taliban terrorist

An Afghan national, who was deported to his country from Nagpur in June this year after he was found staying here illegally, has apparently joined the Taliban and his picture holding a rifle has surfaced on social media, a senior police official said in Nagpur. 

The Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan as it swept into capital Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

"The man, Noor Mohammad Ajiz Mohammad, 30, was found staying in Nagpur since the last 10 years illegally. He was living in a rented place in Dighori area of the city. Acting on a tip-off, the police had started keeping a watch on his activities. He was finally nabbed and deported to Afghanistan on June 23," he said.

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For the first time since the fall of Kabul, PM Narendra Modi has issued a strong statement on Taliban row. 

“Forces that strive for destruction and those who follow the ideology of creating empires out of terror can dominate for some time, but their existence is never permanent as they cannot suppress humanity forever,” he said. 

“Somnath temple has been broken several times over centuries and attempts have been made to destroy the sculptures as well.  it won the test of time and these attempts; standing back up again and again.”