Centre apologises for deporting Afghan MP, offers her emergency visa

The Centre on Thursday said that the deportation of the Afghan MP, who arrived from Istanbul to Delhi, was an inadvertent error, reported The Indian Express. The government also reached out to Rangina Kargar, the MP who represents the Faryab province, and asked her to apply for an emergency visa.

Kargar told The Indian Express that JP Singh, the joint secretary in charge of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran in the Union Ministry of External Affairs, apologised to her about the incident. Opposition leaders had raised the matter of her deportation at the all-party meeting called by the Centre on Thursday to brief the politicians on the situation in Afghanistan.

Kargar said that the government told her that if she applied for the e-visa, the process will be facilitated, reported India Today. She added that the visa was very expensive. “My one-year-old daughter who I had applied a visa for before coming, still has not got the visa and it has been a week,” she said.

Kargar had arrived in Delhi on August 20 but was deported from the airport. The incident came days after the Taliban took control of Kabul on August 14. The MP holds a diplomatic passport that allows visa-free travel under an arrangement with the government of India.

Kargar had told The Indian Express that she has…

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