The Centre on Thursday said that the deportation of the Afghan MP, who arrived from Istanbul to Delhi on August 20, was an error, reported The Indian Express. The government contacted Rangina Kargar, the MP who represents the Faryab province, and asked her to apply for an emergency visa.
The MP holds a diplomatic passport that allows visa-free travel under an arrangement with the government of India.
Kargar told The Indian Express that JP Singh, the joint secretary in charge of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran in the Union Ministry of External Affairs, apologised to her for the incident.
Opposition leaders had raised the matter of her deportation at the all-party meeting called by the Centre on Thursday to brief the politicians on the situation in Afghanistan.
Kargar said that the government told her that if she applied for the e-visa, the process would be facilitated, reported India Today. She added that the visa was very expensive. “My one-year-old daughter who I had…