Taliban request India for flight resumption, decision under review: Report

The decision to resume commercial flights to Kabul is being jointly reviewed by the Directorate General of Civil aviation and the external affairs ministry, a top government source told news agency ANI. Early this month, on September 6, the civil aviation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wrote to the DGCA urging the resumption of commercial flight operations to Kabul, which were closed after August 15.

“The Civil Aviation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan extends its compliments to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India. As you are informed that recently the Kabul airport was damaged and these functional by American troops before their withdrawal.