In a scathing indictment of the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis during the final set of events that led to Taliban’s takeover of power in 2021, the US State Department confirmed Washington’s bureaucratic sluggishness as a significant reason behind the chaos that gripped West’s evacuation from Afghanistan and successive fall of democratically-elected Ashraf Ghani government.

Both Trump and Biden responsible for Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan: US state department

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that “nobody saw the endgame coming” in Afghanistan and called on the international community to “work in the collective interest” of Afghans.

Endgame was not something that anybody saw coming: Jaishankar on Afghanistan

A day after the Taliban took over Kabul, India has evacuated its envoy to Afghanistan Rudrendra Tandon and also other embassy staff members safely.

India evacuates its embassy in Kabul amid escalating crisis in Afghanistan