Taliban said they would keep Afghan residents from making a trip to Kabul’s air terminal to get onto departure flights.
Tending to a public interview on Tuesday, Taliban representative Zabiullah Mujahid, in any case, said outside nationals could keep venturing out to the air terminal.
“The street which goes to the air terminal is impeded. Afghans can’t take that street to go to the air terminal, however far off nationals are permitted to take that street to the air terminal,” CNN cited Mujahid as saying.
Zabiullah Mujahid said the Afghans who had swarmed the Kabul air terminal lately should get back, while promising that they would not confront responses from the Taliban.
The improvement comes seven days in front of the United States and alliance powers’ withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Taliban said the United States should finish its departure and pull out from Afghanistan by August 31 and the outfit would acknowledge “no augmentations” to the cutoff time.
“We are not permitting the departure of Afghans any longer and we are not content with it all things considered. The specialists and scholastics of Afghanistan ought not leave this country, they should work in their own expert regions,” Mujahid said.
A considerable lot of those escaping the country since the Taliban took over have been instructed individuals, particularly ladies. US President Joe Biden said since August 14, in excess of 70,000 individuals, including American residents, NATO work force and Afghans in danger, have been cleared from Kabul.
Responding to the Taliban explanation, the CNN report cited White House press secretary Jen Psaki as saying it ought not affect Afghans who were focused on by the US to leave the country.
“Our assumption, which we have additionally passed on to the Taliban, is that they ought to have the option to get to the air terminal,” she said.