New Delhi
Afghan Member of Parliament Narender Singh Khalsa broke down after landing in India. He along with 23 Afghan nationals was rescued in an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft that landed in the Hindon Air Base, Ghaziabad Sunday morning.
His father Avtar Singh was killed in a 2018 terror attack in Jalalabad.
Speaking to the media, Narender Singh broke down and said, “everything is lost..the government we made...everything has come to zero,” he said in a choked voice.
News agency ANI released his video on Twitter:
He said right now in Afghanistan, all kinds of people are masquerading under the identity of the Taliban and we don’t know whom to talk. He said although veteran Afghan leaders had visited and told them that they should stay on but in the current situation nobody felt safe.#WATCH | Afghanistan's MP Narender Singh Khalsa breaks down as he reaches India from Kabul.
— ANI (@ANI) August 22, 2021
"I feel like crying...Everything that was built in the last 20 years is now finished. It's zero now," he says. pic.twitter.com/R4Cti5MCMv
He said all the Sikhs had taken shelter in the Gurudwara where a community kitchen (langar) was being run round the clock. He wishes all of them are rescued.
In all the 168 persons including 107 Indians, 23 Afghans, Sikhs and Hindus landed in Delhi
A member of the Afghanistan Senate, the Upper House of Parliament Dr Anarkali Kaur Honaryar also reached Delhi on the flight.
Both Khalsa and Honaryar thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government for coming to their rescue.
In the meanwhile, the Afghanistan special cell established by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has received 2,000 SOS calls in the last five days amidst the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
The MEA has answered more than 6,000 queries on WhatsApp and 1,200 emails regarding the evacuation of stranded Indians in Afghanistan.
MEA has set up a special Afghanistan cell to coordinate repatriation and other requests from the war-ravaged country, where the security situation deteriorates after Kabul fell to the Taliban.
An Air India flight carrying 87 Indians from Kabul also landed in Delhi today. .
Separately, 135 Indians who were evacuated from Kabul to Doha in the last few days by the US and NATO aircraft, were flown back from Doha to Delhi on a special flight.
India has been permitted to allow two flights per day from Kabul to evacuate its nationals stranded in Afghanistan, government sources said.
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