Red alert has gone up within Indian security agencies handling immigration after several unidentified Urdu speaking persons forced their way into an office in Kabul handling Indian visas for distribution on behalf of the Indian Missions in Afghanistan and seized un-estimated numbers of Afghan passports with stamped Indian visas. The incident occurred on Assumption , the day the Taliban captured Kabul after US forces beat a hasty retreat.
According to persons conscious of this development, the Indian immigration agencies are alerted to the present seizure of Afghan passports with Indian visas as there’s serious concern that these documents might be wont to forge fake passports for terrorists in future. While it’s not clear which group might be involved during this attack on the Indian visa outsourcing agency in Kabul, the needle of suspicion points towards Pakistan because the intruders were Urdu speaking. “There may be a strong possibility that the Afghan passports with Indian visas might be wont to forge passports for terrorists by changing the photograph on the travel document,:” said a source from Kabul. Raisina Hill and security agencies are tight-lipped about the incident.
According to Kabul watchers, every week after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, variety of shadowy groups are now seen to be operating within the capital city of Afghanistan with large scale searches being administered . it’s learnt that these groups are seizing passports and other travel documents in searches of travel agencies and their owners in Kabul.
The Indian Home Ministry was already on alert when the evacuation exercise was started by the Ministry of External Affairs and National Security teams on August 16 with each passenger screened for his past and travel documents. The Indian mission in Kabul, on its part, is searching its data to dig out names of these Afghans who got the Indian visas and to the outsourcing agency for distribution. the info is being searched and names are being identified in order that those Indian visas might be cancelled.
