Charter flights should start from Kabul Airport on Thursday. It is not clear whether the evacuees will include someone from the group that was stranded at the airport in Mazar-i-Sharif in an attempt to get out of Afghanistan.
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If the flights take place, it will be one of the first international flights after the Taliban took over the management of Kabul Airport at the end of August. Before that, it was controlled by American troops, which oversaw the evacuation of tens of thousands of foreign and Afghan citizens who fled the country after the Islamic movement conquered the metropolis.
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The Taliban’s response came after the movement announced on Tuesday the formation of its new government, led by Muhammad Hasan Achund. On the same day, Qatar officials said Kabul Airport would be able to handle passengers in a few days.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan, has been negotiating to allow further evacuation flights with the Taliban. In the United States, there have been reports that about a thousand people, including Americans, are waiting to leave for Mazar-Sharif. But Foreign Minister Antony Blinken then said that not everyone has valid travel documents.
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