{"id":156239,"date":"2021-08-16T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=156239"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:36:33","slug":"amarinder-singh-centre-evacuation-afghanistan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/amarinder-singh-centre-evacuation-afghanistan-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM urges Centre to arrange evacuation of Indians, 200 Sikhs stuck in gurudwara in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh<\/strong> on Monday urged the Centre to arrange evacuation of all Indians including 200 Sikhs who were stuck in Gurudwara in Afghanistan and said his government was willing to extend any help needed for the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stressing on extra vigilance on all borders of the country, Singh said that the Taliban&#8217;s occupation of Afghanistan is not a good sign for India. Earlier on Sunday, he had said that there was a need to reman extra vigilant at all borders of the country, saying Afghanistan&#8217;s fall to the Taliban does not augur well for India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Urge <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSJaishankar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrSJaishankar<\/a>, MEA, GoI, to arrange for immediate evacuation of all Indians, including around 200 Sikhs, stuck in a Gurudwara in Afghanistan after the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taliban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taliban<\/a> takeover. My govt is willing to extend any help needed to ensure their safe evacuation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEAIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MEAIndia<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/capt_amarinder\/status\/1427156922201903105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Asking help from Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in a tweet, Singh urged Ministry Central govt to &nbsp;immediately evacuate all Indians, including around 200 Sikhs, stuck in a Gurudwara in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. His govt is willing to extend any help needed to ensure their safe evacuation&#8221; the Punjab Chief Minister tweeted mentioning the MEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terrible scenes of taking over Afghanistan by Taliban has triggered concerns and appeals from across the world about the safety of foreigners as well as locals in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Afghanistan\u2019s fall to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taliban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taliban<\/a> doesn\u2019t augur well for our country. It\u2019ll strengthen the Sino-Pak nexus against India (China has already sought militia\u2019s help on Uyghur). The signs are not at all good, we need to be extra vigilant now at all our borders.<\/p>&mdash; Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/capt_amarinder\/status\/1426928379752714250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 60 countries, including the US, have urged Taliban to let Afghans leave the country, warning of accountability for any abuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/imran-khan-taliban-afghanistan\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/imran-khan-taliban-afghanistan\/\">Imran Khan endorses Taliban advance in Afghanistan, says they have broken shackles of slavery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Taliban takeover Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans thronged the Kabul airport to catch any flight on Monday in a hope of flying out of the country. Hours after Taliban captured Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul, the airspace was closed today, aggravating the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taliban&#8217;s return to power to Afghanistan after 20 years has escalated the humanitarian crisis after the United States pulled out its troops in May. Afghanistan stares at an uncertain future as President Ashraf Ghani left the country just before Kabul fell into the hands of the Taliban on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other India News, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/5-killed-kabul-airport-taliban\/\">At least five people have been killed amid chaos at the Kabul airport.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kapil Sibal Taunts Congress As Sushmita Dev Resigns The Party\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BFksqTuNlRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday urged the Centre to arrange evacuation of all Indians including 200 Sikhs who were stuck in Gurudwara in Afghanistan and said his government was willing to extend any help needed for the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":107619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#Afghanistan\n#kabulairport","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[104534,2633,58569],"yst_prominent_words":[6605,3811,5087,25484,3704,6599,3688,60229,42815,20936,9201,32244,34009],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/11\/25182825\/cp-amarinder-singfh.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156239"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=156239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=156239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->