A conflict expert says it'll be logistically difficult for our Government to try to evacuate people from Afghanistan now.
Cabinet will today discuss whether it can evacuate interpreters and the like who supported our military efforts.
Officials are also trying to contact tens of New Zealand citizens and family members to help them get out of the country.
All commercial flights have been suspended from Kabul Airport as Taliban forces sweep the capital.
Otago University's professor Richard Jackson told Mike Hosking things have moved quickly and we've been caught on the hop.
“The only was we could really do it is if the Americans and the Australians and the British sort of agree that they will take some of our people and put them on their flights that they're organising.”
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