Some 10 Afghan evacuation seekers enter Pakistan to head for Japan

Some 10 Afghans, local staff at Japan's agencies in Afghanistan and or their families, have left the country and entered neighboring Pakistan by land on their own, multiple diplomatic sources said Friday.The locals, who were among about 500 evacuation seekers left in the war-torn country as Japan's Self-Defense Forces dispatched to Kabul airport for an evacuation mission were ordered to withdraw on Aug. 31, will head for Japan on Sunday at the earliest, the sources said.Japan had evacuated just one Japanese and 14 Afghans at the request of the United States after the Taliban returned to pow…READ FULL ARTICLE