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They later even during the last six months, the the new surge is due to Delta took away the parked cars security establishment here said 4;14<5 plus K417N mutation. from the premises. he could be very much in The Delta variant resulted These incidents were Afghanistan itself and could f the 30,230 samples of in a deadly second wave in the reported from the Kandahar arrive on the scene once the US Ovariants of concern and country between March and and Herat consulates from forces completely withdraw from variants of interest sequenced May that wreaked havoc on the where New Delhi has pulled the war-ravaged country on # $%& so far in India, a significant health infrastructure, over- out all its India-based diplo- embassies of some other coun- vehicles. However, the flights will August 31. 20,324 were of Delta variants whelming hospitals. It infected matic personnel. These two tries. Reports also said the depend on the situation on the Sources said Akhundzada sweep in Kabul for its larger causing breakthrough infec- lakhs and killed thousands. consulates are now managed by Meanwhile, the local staff Taliban was conducting house ground at the Kabul interna- had even congratulated his geopolitical agenda, experts said tions, INSACOG, a genome In India, new cases of AY.1, locals. India also has a con- of the Indian embassy in Kabul to house searches to identify tional airport and within the deputy Mulla Abdul Ghani adding that keeping sequencing Government con- AY.2, AY.3 (Delta Plus) are sulate in Mazar-e-Sharif besides did not confirm such inci- Afghans who worked for the city where the Taliban has Baradar following the swift Akhundzada in custody would sortium of laboratories has being seen in July samples the embassy in Kabul. dents taking place, reports said. National Directorate of erected road blocks all over takeover of Kabul on Sunday. only defeat its interests. said. from Maharashtra at a fre- These developments came They indicated the Taliban Security, the intelligence agency checking credentials of people, “The most important Quetta Without Akhundzada’s The continuing Covid-19 quency of about 1 per cent. even as the Taliban leadership had entered all the foreign of Afghanistan. sources said. shura or Rahbari Shura (con- active role, the Taliban could not outbreaks across India are However, at this time none of reportedly urged India a few missions in Afghanistan that Meanwhile, efforts to evac- Punjab Chief Minister sultative council) of the Taliban have captured Afghanistan with- attributable to, besides the these sub-lineages has been days back not to evacuate its have been evacuated in the past uate the Indian citizens from Captain Amarinder Singh ear- is based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in a matter of days as against US’ Delta variant, a susceptible found to have a growth advan- staff from its Kabul embassy. week to seek details from the Kabul and other parts of lier this week had appealed to region of Pakistan. Pakistan’s estimates of a takeover of Kabul population and reduced vac- tage over the Delta parent lin- India was assured of security local staff. All foreign missions Afghanistan were on, sources the Central Government to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s in 18 months. cine effectiveness in blocking eage, it noted. and safety, sources said here on are now surrounded by the said. There were about 450 to evacuate Sikhs from the strife party PTI had won the Assembly In addition, the Taliban has transmission, the INSACOG Friday. Taliban and cordoned off for 500 Indian citizens waiting to torn country and said there are elections with the help of Taliban, a close relationship with the added. This assurance came from common people. be brought out. Several trans- more than 300 Sikhs there so keeping Akhundzada in cus- Haqqani network and any such However, vaccination con- Abbahs Stanikzai, one of the The Taliban leadership had port planes of the IAF besides now. The Government had tody would only damage the rul- misadventure by the Pakistani tinues to be very effective in seven important Taliban lead- earlier said that they have Air India were on standby and said it was in touch with mem- ing dispensation in Islamabad,” army could have been resolute- reducing severe disease and ers. Interestingly, Stanikzai had asked the fighters to refrain sources indicated one or two bers of the minority commu- an official tracking the develop- ly repulsed by the two dreaded death, and public health mea- trained as an Army officer at from entering empty embassy planes may go to Kabul over nities in Afghanistan and will ment said. terror groups, both of which con- sures such as mask and hygiene the Indian Military Academy establishments of other nations the weekend to bring back the do everything possible to Further, it is in the interest tinue to be sanctioned by the to reduce transmission and (IMA) in 1982. and also not manhandle their stranded Indians. ensure their safety. of Pakistan to back the Taliban UN. inoculation remain critical, the 4;14<5 Sources said the message INSACOG stressed in its latest came from his office in Qatar bulletin dated August 16. he subject expert commit- before the diplomatic staff, “As of now, sequencing of Ttee (SEC) on Covid-19 of including the Ambassador, was vaccination breakthroughs in the DCGI has recommended evacuated earlier this week. India is also showing a very granting emergency approval The message sent to the Indian high proportion of Delta vari- to the Zycov-D, a vaccine Government reportedly said )=< stunning blitz through the they have changed. indicator of what Taliban rule ants. Investigations for any developed by the Ahmedabad- diplomats will not be harmed. country. Others have taken to The rights group said that may bring,” said Agnes new variants are ongoing,” the based Zydus Cadilla group, on Also, India need not fear eports of targeted killings in the streets to protest the its researchers spoke to eye- Callamard, the head of INSACOG said. Friday, making it the first vac- attacks on its embassy from ter- Rareas overrun by the takeover — acts of defiance that witnesses in Ghazni province Amnesty International. Of the 30,230 samples of cine in India that can be rorist outfits like the Jaish-e- Taliban mounted on Friday, Taliban fighters have violently who recounted how the Taliban variants of concern and vari- administered to adults as well Mohammad or the Lashkar-e- fuelling fears that they will suppressed. killed nine ethnic Hazara men ants of interest sequenced by as those 12 and above. It’s the Tayyeba. return Afghanistan to the The Taliban say they have in the village of Mundarakht on the INSACOG, 20,324 were of only DNA-based vaccine in the On the two incidents of the repressive rule they imposed become more moderate since July 4-6. It said six of the men Delta, it said. world and can be administered Taliban entering the consulates, when they were last in power, they last ruled Afghanistan in country. But many Afghans are were shot, and three were tor- Citing an example of the without a needle. sources said it was a matter of even as they urged imams to the 1990s and have pledged to skeptical, fearing that the tured to death. Hazaras are Berlin: Taliban fighters hunt- UK where with a population of Prime Minister Narendra serious concern that such push a message of unity at restore security and forgive Taliban will erase the gains, Shiite Muslims who were pre- ing a journalist from Deutsche about 6.7 crore, about 18 lakh Modi tweeted, “The approval actions took place despite Friday’s prayers. those who fought them in the especially for women, achieved viously persecuted by the Welle have shot dead one cases and 1.2 lakh vaccination for world’s first DNA-based assurances by the Taliban. Terrified that the new de 20 years since a US-led inva- in the past two decades. Taliban and who made major member of his family and breakthroughs with Delta since ‘ZyCov-D’ vaccine of Zydus The fighters of the Taliban facto rulers would commit sion. Reports of abuses are grow- gains in education and social severely injured another, the April 2021 have been reported, Cadila is a testimony to the ransacked the consulates in such abuses, thousands have Ahead of Friday prayers, ing, and an Amnesty status in recent years. German public broadcaster the INSACOG said, thus, vac- innovative zeal of India’s sci- Kandahar and Herat. It was raced to Kabul’s airport and to leaders urged imams to use International report provided The brutality of the killings said, adding that three more of cination breakthroughs are entists. A momentous feat learnt that the fighters also border crossings, desperate to sermons to appeal for unity and more evidence Friday that was “a reminder of the Taliban’s its journalists had had their common during Delta out- indeed,” tweets Prime Minister entered consulates and flee following the Taliban’s urge people not to flee the undercut the Taliban’s claims past record, and a horrifying homes raided.