Afghans seek to leave after U.S withdraw

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN-JULY 08: Afghans apply for passports at the Afghan Passport Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 08, 2021. After the withdrawal of the international forces, at least hundreds of Afghans including families apply for passports seek to leave the uncertain tomorrow in Afghanistan. HAMID SABAWOON/ AFGHAN MULTIMEDIA AGENCY

An Afghan passport applicant said; The people come here to get new passports, everybody suffers problems, like diseases, there are a lot of problems in this country, economic problems, security problems therefore people get new passports, and there are majority who possibly travel to foreigner countries. There are a lot of visitors, I asked the responsible about the visitors he estimates the visitors around 7,000, to 8,000 dailies.

“Thanks God and fortunately the Afghan Passport Office of the Ministry of Interior affairs which has departments in at least 33 provinces of Afghanistan, and host the passport applicants in a good behavior and the number of the passport applicants last year’s we host about 5,000 applicants daily, and did good services but fortunately recently the number of the passport applicants decreased by 3,000 applicants.” Abdul Khaliq Mohammadi, a Deputy for Passport Affairs explained.