Amid India’s ongoing evacuation operation from Afghanistan, an Afghan woman MP has now claimed that she was deported from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on August 20. Reports said that Rangina Kargar who represents the Faryab province in Afghanistan flew in India from Istanbul and had a rendezvous at 11am at a South Delhi hospital. Her round-trip ticket was on August 22 to Istanbul. However, she wasn’t allowed to get out of immigration and was later sent back to Istanbul via Dubai on the identical airline, reports said.
“They deported me, i used to be treated as a criminal. i used to be not given my passport in Dubai. it absolutely was given back to me only in Istanbul. I never expected this from Gandhiji’s India. We are always friends with India, we’ve got strategic relations with India,” Rangina Kargar told the Indian Express. Airport officials reportedly told her that they were helpless and that they could do nothing at that time.
After she was reportedly deported, India evacuated two Afghan Sikh MPS, Narinder Singh Khalsa and Anarkali Kaur Honaryar who arrived in India on evacuation flights. Rangina Kargar has clarified that she travelled to India like she had exhausted the past on the identical passport. She had her return tickets booked and wasn’t about to stay within the country.
The woman MP has been in Afghanistan politics since 2010 and is an independent politician. Currently, she stays in Turkey and in 2020 had applied for political asylum in Canada.
After the autumn of Kabul on Assumption of Mary, India operated several evacuation flights from Kabul because it said the govt is committed to rescue all Sikhs and Hindus living in Afghanistan and every one Afghans who are willing to come back to India. The Union home ministry has also introduced a fast-tracked e-visa provision for Afghan nationals. But whether there’s any change within the rule for Afghans coming from the other location isn’t clear as reports said the ministry of external affairs wasn’t conscious of what happened to Rangina Kargar.
