KABUL: Mohammed Jan Sultani has gripped the Taekwondo National Championship certificate when he navigated many people who pushed into the Kabul airport last weekend.
The 25-year-old athlete was not in the evacuation list.
But he hoped his achievements would make him and his young family quite special to be left to the gate and to one of the flights that saved foreigners and Afghanistan escaped from the Taliban.
When he was forged forward, an Islamic suicide bomber blew up two dozen pounds of explosives in the crowd just before Thursday, killing 169 Afghans, including Sultani, and 13 service members A.S.
The wife and two children, 4 year old Zahid and 2 year old Zahra, congratulations; He had told them to stay a little when he advanced towards the gate.
Three days later, Zahid was still shocked.
He cried, but did not speak.
Athletes, Ali, said his son expected a gloomy future under the Taliban.
“ He doesn’t know where he will go, ” Humans are bereaved, who left with Rahmani’s last name, said Sunday.
“ The United States, Europe, it doesn’t matter, “ Rahmani said, holding some of his son’s medals, his voice mixed with sadness.
“Everyone in the country seems to run away, ‘” he said.
Najma Sadeqi also among those who tried out that afternoon.
The 20-year-old, who was in his last semester in the school of journalism, was afraid that the power of Taliban would bring the versions of the rules of Islam that were hard where women would mostly be locked up in their homes.
Through the airport gate holding a career promise elsewhere, far from all threats and judgment.
The explosion Thursday killed Najma, and his brother and his cousin who had drowned him to the airport to ensure his salvation.
Najma has earned early journalism with YouTube channels a few years ago and finally went to work for some personal broadcasters, her sister said Fresthta.
In two decades since the US LED invasion rides a Taliban from power, women have benefited in education, politics, and business _ but not easy.
Afghanistan remains a very conservative country, especially outside of urban areas.
Many relatives of Najma themselves objected to her newborn career, with some even cutting contact.
Freshta said his sister received threatening phone calls and text messages from an unknown man who objected to him appearing in public.
“I was the only thing he said about his security issues,` `Freshta said.` `He doesn’t want to share it with family because they can prevent it from working with the media.” But as the Taliban quickly advanced, capturing most countries in a matter of days And rolling around to the capital earlier this month, Najma decided to join the exodus, afraid that takeover would spell the end of a career that had just begun.
He compiled a text message that threatened and took them to the airport, hoping they would help him convince Americans to place him on the plane.
Najma plans to restart the Youtube channel from his new home _ anywhere it might be _ and document the life of the Afghan migrant, said Freshta.
“He dreamed of building a career in the media even though there was a challenge he faced Ali Reza Ahmadi, a 34-year-old children who have worked as journalists for almost a decade, very desperate To come out that he went to the airport for only months after being engaged.
He and his younger brother, who hoped to travel with him, both were killed, according to Khadim Karimi, a close friend and colleague.
He said Ahmadi had struggled with depression and financial problems before the Taliban swept in.
“He was very confused, so he decided to go to the airport and stay there until he could get AirLift from any country that would take him,” Karimi said.