India is ready to deal with any terrorism spilling out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, the country's top military General has said.

"As far as Afghanistan is concerned, we'll make sure that any activity likely to flow out of Afghanistan and find its way into India will be dealt with in the manner in which we're dealing with terrorism in our country,"
Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said in the national capital on Wednesday.

General Rawat's warning comes days after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, with the American troops virtually ending their 20-year military presence in that country.

Though Afghanistan has closed its airspace for all civilian flights, India has been evacuating its nationals from that country with the help of the US troops stationed at Kabul airport.

On Sunday, the Indian Air Force airlifted 168 people from Afghanistan, including some 100 nationals who were briefly held by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday.

On the same day, three other commercial flights evacuated another 100 stranded Indian nationals from Kabul.

On Friday too, the Indian Air Force airlifted 85 Indians from Kabul. And three days prior to that, India evacuated all its diplomatic staff, including the Ambassador, from its embassy in Kabul.

Earlier, India had evacuated all its diplomatic staff and their families from its three consulates in Afghanistan -- Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat.

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan last Sunday, with the American troops virtually ending their 20-year military presence in the South Asian country.

India is worried about the implications of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, given it has so far infused over three billion USD worth development aid into that country.

The horrific memories of the Taliban's role in the hijacking of an Indian airliner in 1999 also worries Delhi. "It's a wait and watch situation for us," a diplomat recently said.