For the first time since the Taliban retook power three years ago, a deportation flight to Afghanistan took off from Germany on Friday, government officials said. “These were Afghan nationals, all of whom were convicted criminals who had no right to stay in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued,” German government spokesman Stefan Hebestreit said. The Qatar Airways charter jet carrying 28 Afghan men departed the Leipzig/Halle airport for Kabul at 6:56 am (0456 GMT), according to the Interior Ministry in the eastern state of Saxony. The men had been brought from across the…