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Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that India has always provided very strong support to minority communities in Afghanistan, particularly Sikhs and Hindus, and it is an important part of New Delhi’s effort to evacuate those Afghan nationals who want to leave the war-ravaged country.
As PTI reported, Last week, India brought back 78 people, including 25 of its nationals and a number of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus from Dushanbe, a day after they were evacuated from Taliban-besieged Kabul to the Tajik city.
The group along with three copies of the Sikh scripture, Guru Granth Sahib, was airlifted from Kabul to Dushanbe by a military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Monday.
With Tuesday’s evacuation, the number of people brought back to Delhi reached over 800 since August 16 when the first group was airlifted from Kabul, a day after the Taliban seized control of the Afghan capital city.
India carried out the evacuation missions in coordination with the United States and several other friendly countries.
Shringla chaired a Security Council meeting on Monday on the situation in Afghanistan during which the 15-nation Council adopted a resolution that ‘reaffirms the importance of upholding human rights including those of women, children and minorities’.
