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  • Government doing everything for evacuation of Indians from Afghanistan: Union Minister Pralhad Joshi

    By PTI

    HUBBALI: Union Minister for Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday said the Government is doing everything for total evacuation of Indian citizens stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban asserted control over the nation.

    “Developments in Afghanistan are quite worrisome. The Indian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will strive to bring the last Indian citizen stuck there,” Joshi told reporters here.

    He added that the government is trying to bring the remaining Indian citizens stuck there.

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    “The entire system has collapsed there (in Afghanistan). Flight services are hit and aeroplanes are not flying. Not only airport but also the air space is jammed. In this scenario, the Indian government is doing whatever best it can do. We are very concerned about individual citizens,” Joshi said.

    Stating that the government of India is closely monitoring the developments, Joshi said the Government led by Modi is capable of handling all kinds of situations.

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    To buttress his point, he said no terrorist activity has taken place in any part of India except for “things happening” in Jammu and Kashmir unlike earlier when terrorist activities were happening in many parts of India including Hubballi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Guwahati and Hyderabad.

    “Today not a single incident is taking place. The reason is that we follow zero tolerance towards terrorism. Accordingly, we have made our preparations whatever is necessary and we are doing everything to put the terrorist organisations in their place,” Joshi said.

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    The minister said for the past seven years, the Government is monitoring “every development at the micro-level” and, hence, there was no need to panic.

  • India is self-sufficient to face threat of cross border terrorism, says Pralhad Joshi

    By ANI

    HUBLI: Amid the ongoing Afghanistan crisis, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday said that India is self-sufficient to face the threat of cross border terrorism.

    Speaking to ANI, Joshi said, “India is quite strong and self-sufficient to contain the situation, also to face the threat of cross border terrorism.”

    He further said that India follows the policy of zero-tolerance towards terrorism.

    “They will try to create problem in other countries but as we in the last 7 years at least, we have approached the policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism,” said the Minister.

    Afghanistan government collapsed on Sunday with President Ashraf Ghani leaving the country and the Taliban’s entry into the capital, according to media reports.

    They seized the presidential palace. Several countries evacuated their diplomatic personnel from the country. Panic gripped the Afghan capital and hundreds of people on Monday flocked to the Kabul airport in an attempt to leave Afghanistan.