[KhaamaPress] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that people will not be allowed to travel abroad until the new cabinet is complete and Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era...
International Airport is fully prepared.
Acting minister of information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Zabiullah Mujahid said that travelers have to wait until the ministries of interior and foreign affairs start operations.
As per the new directive, those who have all the legitimate documents will not be allowed either.
Earlier, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan did not allow flights carrying Afghans and foreigners from the northern Mazar-e-sharif city of Balkh province.
The biggest airport of Afghanistan based in Kabul has resumed domestic flights and receiving aid but international flights are yet to be started.
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along with a 19-member team of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
is busy working in HKIA to make it ready for international flights.
US forces have inflicted up to $20 million in damage to the airport before their full withdrawal.
Taliban block hundreds from leaving Afghanistan
[AlAhram] An Afghan employee of an American organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban
 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
are blocking her and hundreds of other people from boarding charter evacuation flights out of Afghanistan.
The woman spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named anonymously Tuesday, saying she feared for her safety if she is singled out by the Taliban.
The U.S. organization, Ascend, has worked for years with Afghan women and girls. The woman is among several hundred people, reportedly including American citizens and green card holders, who say they have been waiting in large residence halls and hotels for more than a week for permission to board waiting charter flights out of the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
``We think we are in some kind of jail,'' the woman told the AP.
She says the American citizens she has met in the group are vulnerable people in their 70s, parents of Afghan Americans in the United States.
Taliban officials say they will let people who have the proper passports and other documentation leave. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday denied claims from Republican politicians that the situation in Mazar I Sharif amounted to a hostage-taking, after the U.S. government pulled its last troops and diplomats from the country last week.
The Afghan woman who talked to AP says her group has proper passports and visas, but the Taliban are blocking them from entering the airport. She says she went fleeing to the women's side of her hotel last week when word spread that the Taliban were searching the would-be evacuees, and had taken some away.
``I am scared if they split us' up 'and not let us leave,'' she said. ``If we can't get out of here, something wrong will happen. And I am afraid of that.''
Blinken Denies Flights Being Blocked by Taliban, Blames Evacuees for Not Having Proper Identification
 [Townhall] Following reports that Americans were being prevented from leaving Afghanistan by Taliban fighters, Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintained his insistence that the flights aren't being blocked and that his department is not to blame for any delay. Instead, Blinken blamed those seeking to flee Afghanistan for not having proper travel documents.
As Townhall reported, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) shared the story of an attempted evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies being blocked by the Taliban who he said are "holding them hostage for demands." The six-aircraft evacuation operation is still being blocked from taking off from Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport in northern Afghanistan, but Blinken denied that he shoulders any blame. Instead, repeating a common refrain from the Biden administration amid its disastrous withdrawal, Blinken blamed those trying to leave for not having proper documentation.
"It’s my understanding that the Taliban has not denied exit to anyone holding a valid document, but they have said that those without valid documents at this point can’t leave," explained Blinken. "But because all of these people are grouped together, that’s meant that flights have not been allowed to go."
So, despite his claims otherwise, the Taliban is in fact blocking flights with Americans from leaving the country. New satellite images over the weekend also seem to show planes stuck on the ramp in Mazar-i-Sharif as Leah reported. 
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