Afghanistan crisis live updates: 'Afghan evacuee flights halted from two key bases'

Taliban fighters resorted to discharging their guns in the air to disperse protesters, including women, at a large demonstration in front of the Pakistan embassy in Kabul on Tuesday.

CIA chief Bill Burns flew into India on Tuesday for consultations on key security issues with national security adviser Ajit Doval and India’s security establishment even as the Taliban announced their interim government in Kabul. The conversation centred on terrorism, largely from Pakistan, as well as the way forward on Afghanistan.

India and Russia will hold high-level inter-governmental discussions on the situation in Afghanistan, the government announced on Tuesday. At the invitation of national security adviser Ajit Doval, his counterpart and the secretary of the security council of the Russian Federation Nikolay Patrushev will be visiting India for the meeting on September 7-8, the foreign ministry said in a statement.