Mobile users receive test alert with a loud beep and flash message

Indian Government conducts Nationwide Test of Emergency Alert system; Did you receive any emergency alert on your phone today? Here's what it means

 The New Yorker magazine, a reputed publication, has claimed that it was in fact a text message, followed by a telephone call from a Pakistani number that persuaded then Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib to leave the country at the time when Taliban were entering Kabul in mid-August this year.

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Indian Government conducts Nationwide Test of Emergency Alert system; Did you receive any emergency alert on your phone today? Here's what it means

Text message and a call from Pak heralded Ashraf Ghani's exit from Afghanistan