The Centre will be holding an all party meeting Thursday on the Taliban-Afghanistan situation. External Affairs minister S Jaishankar will be briefing the floor leaders.
“Floor Leaders of Political Parties would be briefed by EAM @DrSJaishankar on the present situation in Afghanistan, on 26th August, 11 am in Main Committee Room, PHA, New Delhi. Invites are being sent through email. All concerned are requested to attend,” he tweeted on Tuesday.
The government’s briefing is expected to focus on its evacuation mission from Afghanistan as well as its assessment of the situation in the war-torn country in the wake of the Taliban seizing control of almost all key Afghan towns and cities, including capital Kabul.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that representatives of her party, the Trinamool Congress, will attend the meeting. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi told news agency ANI that he has received an invite for the meeting and he will be attending it.
A fresh batch of 180 people, evacuated from Afghanistan, is expected to arrive in India from Kabul in a military aircraft on Thursday. India has named its evacuation mission ‘Operation Devi Shakti’.
(Inputs from news agencies)