Evacuating Indian Embassy Staff From Kabul Was "Difficult": S Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the movement of the Indian ambassador and the embassy staff from Kabul to India was a difficult and complicated exercise.

Evacuating the embassy officials from Afghanistan's Kabul and bringing them back home was a "difficult and complicated exercise" for India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said today, hours after a special Air Force flight brought back the envoy, along with other staff members and Indo-Tibetan Border Police troops. Movement of the Indian Ambassador and the Embassy staff from Kabul to India was a difficult and complicated exercise. Thank all those whose cooperation and facilitation made it possible. "Movement of the Indian Ambassador and the Embassy staff from Kabul to India was a difficult and complicated exercise. Thank all those whose cooperation and facilitation made it possible," Mr Jaishankar tweeted this evening. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan after 20 years on Sunday by capturing capital Kabul after a series of provincial capitals fell in rapid succession and the nation's president, Ashraf Ghani, fled abroad.