The Afghan Evacuation Date in 24 Hours Joe Biden expected to decide

Thousands of Afghans and foreigners have gathered at Kabul’s airport, hoping to flee Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. US President Joe Biden is expected to make a decision as soon as Tuesday on whether to extend an August 31 deadline for airlifting Americans and their allies to safety.

On Sunday, Biden warned that the evacuation would be “difficult and traumatic,” and that a lot could still go wrong. According to him, US troops may stay over the August 31 deadline to supervise the evacuation.

A government official on Monday told Reuters that, within 24 hours, Biden will decide whether or not to extend the timetable in order to prepare the Pentagon. In addition, department of the Defense officers stated that it would take days for the 6,000 soldiers assigned to secure and operate a lift to transfer thousands of Americans, people of Allied countries and Afghanistan who served along with US troops.

For security grounds, several Biden counsellors were opposed to extending the self-imposed deadline. At his virtual Group of Seven rich Nations summit on Tuesday, Biden could announce his intention.Two US officials expected to continue evacuations by the United States on the 31^st of August. The country is committed to risky Afghans “do not end on August 31” according to a senior State Department Officer.

After a briefing by US intelligence officials on Afghanistan, Democrate representative Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said that he did not believe that the egress could be completed in the remaining eight days.

“I think it’s feasible, but given the number of Americans who still need to be evacuated, I think it’s quite improbable,” Schiff added.

Foreign forces had not requested an extension, according to a Taliban official, and if they had, it would not be granted. Negotiations, according to Washington, are still ongoing.The United States was in daily conversations with the Taliban and was making “enormous strides” in the evacuation, according to the national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Between 3 am and 3 pm on Monday there were approximately 10,900 evacuated persons from Kabul, meaning 48,000 people have been removed since 14 August from the United States.

U.S. defence officials had told Reuters that practically all would have to be perfectly revoked before 31 August in view of concerns about the airport, terrorist attacks and difficult periods of processing.

Spokesman of the State Department, Ned Price, told reporters the United States had talked to the Taliban and US partners and allies about future airport control.

By:  Divyanshi Jaiswal