Taliban Detain Dozens Trying To Leave Afghanistan ‘Illegally’ By Air

Dozens of people were stopped from “illegally” leaving Afghanistan by air on Monday, a Taliban official, and several women between them were detained until they were collected by relatives of men.
Tens of thousands of Afghans escaped from evacuation flights from Kabul in August when the Taliban returned to power in the midst of a hasty withdrawal of US-led troops.

Some international countries and NGOs have been operating from irregular chartered flights extract Afghanistan, but the Taliban authority is increasingly clamping.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Monday night that a group had tried to go with flights from the North City of Mazar-I-Sharif.

“Forty people were arrested … who wanted to go abroad illegally by plane,” he said.

He said mostly released, but some women “remained detained because their male relatives had not yet come to escort them”.

The Taliban insists anyone can go as long as they have the right documents – including visas wherever they go – but get documents in the country where only a handful of embassies that operate are very difficult.

The Islamic hardline government has also requested Afghanistan with skills and training to stay and help rebuild the country.

Although promising a verial of a softer rule compared to their first task from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban had imposed several restrictions on women.

They are prohibited from long-distance trips unless accompanied by relatives of male close, and have also been stopped from returning to work in most of the government sectors.