US and China ask their residents in Afghanistan to not go to Kabul Airport

Chaos and dysfunction have been the prevailing state of affairs at Kabul airport for the reason that Taliban formally took over Afghanistan on Sunday this week. Since then, a raft of individuals has flocked to the airport fearing persecution from the Talibani regime and in a determined bid to fly in another country.
Thousands of individuals have been seen queuing up outdoors the Kabul International Airport, hoping to get inside and catch a flight proper in another country. However, a report printed in Sky News says the situation exacerbated this morning as individuals standing within the entrance of the queue discovered themselves crushed as mayhem swept over the place.
The international troopers had little time, to course of and assist the victims as the large crowd of individuals jostled and pushed to get contained in the airport. Scores of individuals reportedly died within the stampede that ensued outdoors the airport premises, the report mentioned, as officers have been seen masking the lifeless with white sheets.
US and Chinese embassy in Afghanistan urge their nationals to chorus from travelling to Kabul airport
With chaos engulfing Kabul airport and far of Afghanistan, the United States embassy in Afghanistan, which is working from the army facet of the airport, urged American residents to keep away from travelling to the airport citing “potential security threat”.
“Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid travelling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so”, the embassy mentioned in its newest safety alert issued at present.
“U.S. citizens requesting assistance in departing the country who have not yet to completed the Repatriation Assistance Request for each traveller in their group should do so as soon as possible. Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens in Afghanistan who are awaiting immigrant visas should also complete this form if they wish to depart,” the embassy mentioned within the alert. The assertion additionally requested individuals to not name the embassy, and added that filling the shape is the one method to contact them.
Similarly, the Chinese embassy in Kabul additionally requested Chinese nationals to steer clear of Kabul airport and different websites which are susceptible to violent flare-ups. In reality, the Chinese embassy went a step forward and even requested its residents to strictly abide by Islamic customs, together with the code of dressing and eating in public.
Chinese embassy in Afghanistan on Saturday urged Chinese nationals there to strictly abide by Islamic customized together with code of dressing and eating in public. The embassy additionally advised Chinese individuals maintain distance from the Kabul airport and different chaotic websites. pic.twitter.com/UkMdr8lJ0j— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 21, 2021

Taliban takes over Afghanistan
After a month-long offensive towards the Afghan military, the Islamist outfit Taliban lastly reached the gates of Kabul on Sunday (August 15). They entered Afghanistan’s presidential palace hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the nation.
Since then surreal scenes have emerged as individuals attempt to flee the nation to avoid wasting their lives. Visuals of Afghan individuals falling from the sky as they tried to flee whereas hanging on to the wheels of the aeroplanes have gone viral on social media. The Taliban terrorists have been seen having fun with themselves because the amusement park as effectively in different surreal scenes.
While the Taliban has promised to protect ladies’s rights and grant amnesty to everybody who had run afoul with the fear outfit, the scenario on the bottom tells a distinct story. There have been studies rising from Kabul and different components of Afghanistan that say the Taliban terrorists have been looking down their adversaries and exacting revenge from these whom they understand to have helped the United States and NATO forces. This has added to the panic among the many individuals, who at the moment are both going underground or dashing in the direction of the airport to flee the nation.