After the UK, now the US tells its citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately
New Delhi: Amid the rising violence of the Taliban in several provinces of Afghanistan, the United States (US) on Saturday advised its citizens to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.
According to the local media, A statement released by the US embassy in Kabul said that “its ability to assist Americans in Afghanistan is extremely limited given the security conditions and reduced staffing in the wake of increasing violence and threat reports.”
The United Kingdom has already informed its citizens to leave Afghanistan due to the rising presence of the Taliban in the land-lock country.
“The US Embassy urges US citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately using available commercial flight options,” the embassy said amid the worsening situation.
The militants of the Islamist fundamentalist group have surrounded several Afghan cities and taken control of the provincial capital. On Friday, the Taliban fighters shot dead the head of the Afghan government’s media information center near a mosque in Kabul.
“We can provide a repatriation loan to its nationals who cannot afford to purchase a ticket for a commercial flight to the United States. The US state department has maintained the travel advisory for Afghanistan at Level 4, the highest of all, owing to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, armed conflict, and coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic,” The US embassy said.
“Domestic flights and ground transportation routes outside of Kabul are severely limited and subject to cancellation or closure,” the US embassy added.
Jen Psaki – Spokesperson at White House told a media on Friday that “the Biden administration is ‘closely tracking’ and is ‘concerned about the reports of atrocities and retaliatory killings of civilians in Taliban-controlled areas.”
Psaki, however, stressed that the US will complete its troops’ withdrawal.
“The President made clear: After 20 years at war, it’s time for American troops to come home and as he said at the time, the status quo was not an option. The Taliban was prepared to attack US and NATO troops after May 1st, which was the deadline for our departure,” she added.
