200 passengers to leave Kabul in first airlift since US pullout
Members of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit stand guard at a check point as airport employees queue to enter to the Kabul International Airport in Kabul on September 4, 2021. On September 9, 2021 a Qatar Airways flight was being prepared to take out some 200 passengers from Kabul's airport, the first since the US pullout. PHOTO | AAMIR QURESHI | AFP
On Thursday afternoon, a Qatar Airways flight was being prepared to take out some 200 passengers from Kabul's airport -- the first since a mammoth, chaotic airlift of over 120,000 people ended with the US pullout.
It was not immediately clear who organised the flight, but footage broadcast by Al Jazeera TV showed families including women, children and elderly people waiting with suitcases at the airport.
