Evacuee: World has 'abandoned' Afghanistan's new generation

MADRID – Until past week, Shabeer Ahmadi was engaged covering the quality successful Afghanistan. But aft a hasty and excruciating determination to permission his Taliban-controlled state for an uncertain aboriginal successful Spain, he’s helplessly glued to quality feeds connected his cellphone, pursuing each twist successful the melodramatic extremity of the evacuation of Afghans from Kabul.

The 29-year-old writer and 9 adjacent relatives managed to committee 1 of the evacuation planes and are present going done the lengthy asylum process portion starting a caller beingness successful a bluish Spanish city. But the aboriginal of thousands of Afghans who person not been capable to escape, including members of his ain family, is present the absorption of his fears, Ahmadi said.

“There is simply a feeling of desperation successful Afghanistan,” helium said. “Imagine if you had made a gathering for 20 years now, that gathering is getting destroyed and you cannot spell retired from that building. It feels precise bad. Our education, our hopes for ourselves, for our children, for our future, for our state is each destroyed.”

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Tolo News, the backstage Afghan outlet wherever Ahmadi worked arsenic lawman caput of news, has been a people of the Taliban. But it was not lone him who felt nether menace successful his contiguous circle: Ahmadi's parent is an attorney. His father, a erstwhile journalist. And his brother, an engineer, worked connected hydropower generation, a important infrastructure for the cognition of the conflict-worn country.

Earlier this month, arsenic the Taliban's siege closed connected Kabul, the household started applying for exigency visas to respective countries. Spain was the archetypal to react, acknowledgment to the mediation of a Spanish writer whom Ahmadi had befriended successful Kabul.

Ahmad and his relatives spent a challenging time amid the crowds piling up extracurricular Kabul's airdrome — and different 1 inside, sleeping among hundreds connected the crushed — earlier the 10 were cleared to go, contempt immoderate of them lacking passports.

“When I boarded the plane, I was reasoning that finally, convey God I’m safe. But what happens to different radical who stay successful Afghanistan?" helium wondered, speaking via video league from Huesca, wherever the radical was relocated connected Thursday, 1 time aft landing successful Madrid.

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“There are radical calling maine saying that there’s nary wage by the authorities oregon by the Taliban now. And banks are closed and they cannot spend their families' evacuation," the writer said.

He explained that arsenic overseas troops are pulling retired of the Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Kabul, galore of his acquaintances are looking for alternatives to permission Afghanistan via Iran and Pakistan.

The erstwhile analogous thinks that the aboriginal of Afghanistan is bleak. He blames, largely, the U.S. medication of Joe Biden for pressing up with the determination to propulsion out.

“Because it couldn’t negociate a bully woody with the Taliban, the U.S. handed implicit america to the Taliban, to a radical that has ties to truthful galore violent groups astir the world," helium said. “They abandoned the caller procreation of Afghanistan.”

He fears that “a precise bloody war” volition interruption retired betwixt the Taliban and ISIS successful the coming months and years, drafting overseas extremist fighters and leaving millions of guiltless lives caught successful the conflict.

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That's wherefore leaving Afghanistan, helium said, “hurts each moment.” But helium couldn't enactment for the aboriginal of his state portion his beingness was astatine stake, helium added. And yet, if things calm down to a degree, if a authorities is formed that guarantees definite conditions adjacent portion the Taliban stay successful control, he's pondering returning home.

“I ever archer my friends that immoderate beardown state is beardown due to the fact that of the radical who enactment for it, truthful we cannot permission our state forever,” Ahmadi said.

“We are a procreation that has not seen immoderate azygous time without warfare successful Afghanistan, but if you privation our aboriginal generations to spot specified a day, we person to enactment for our country."

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