Taliban Takeover Plunges Kabul Into Chaos; India Offers Help to Afghan Hindus, Sikhs

India also chaired a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the development of the situation in Afghanistan.

A Taliban fighter sits on the back of a vehicle with a machine gun in front of the main gate leading to the Afghan presidential palace, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.

The Indian Embassy was shut on Monday as the situation in Kabul worsened amid the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

The Indian Embassy staff will be evacuated from Kabul, the sources said, adding that staff is already winding up, arranging documents and other things required for the departure.

The Embassy will be left to local Afghan personnel for any operation, the sources said.

Meanwhile, an IAF aircraft, the C-17 Globemaster reached Kabul for evacuation of Indians. However, after flight operations - both military and civilian - were halted due to disturbances.