India Supplies Safe haven To Former Afghan Governor, four Others: File

New Delhi:

In what seems to be route correction after the Rangina Kargar episode, India has allowed 5 Afghans, together with a former provincial Governor of Afghanistan having a diplomatic passport into the rustic.

The verdict comes days after India deported Afghan Member of Parliament Kargar, a transfer that invited grievance at house and diplomatic circles globally.

In step with a senior reliable, who showed {that a} week in the past 5 folks together with a circle of relatives all possessing Afghanistan diplomatic passports had arrived on the Indira Gandhi World Airport Delhi from Dubai. Their arrival used to be knowledgeable to the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) and access into the rustic cleared.

“A senior physician with Afghanistan govt arrived along with his spouse and two kids and Samangan’s governor Mohammad Dawood Kalakani,” stated the reliable, including that since all flights to Afghanistan were stopped from India, all of them first went to Iran then Dubai and in spite of everything arrived in Delhi.

The diplomatic/reliable passport facilitates visa-free commute underneath a reciprocal association with India for 30 days.

On July 20, Rangina Kargar, member of the Wolesi Jirga the place she represents the Faryab province had claimed that upon her arrival on the IGI Airport from Istanbul on a Fly Dubai flight, she used to be now not allowed to come back out of doors the airport although she held a diplomatic passport.

After the incident, a joint secretary-level officer within the Union Ministry of Exterior Affairs had apologised to her for the incident and introduced her an emergency visa.

The reliable added that once Kargar’s episode, directions have been issued referring to diplomatic passport holders and allowed them hassle-free access to the rustic. 

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