New Delhi: Less than four months, Iknoor Singh, could barely know the chaos of his parents trapped when the Taliban took over Kabul.
Toddlers did not have a passport and only with birth certificates in hand, parents reached out to Indian authorities who took them out of Afghanistan as a special case in ongoing evacuation operations.
Those who came from the coordination and supporters of the Afghan community shared that Innoor paper work for trips that occurred on the journey and the child was allowed to enter India with his parents with formalities completed in Hindon Airbase where foreign regional registration officials camping.
The father’s father, Kerpal Singh, his wife and three children were part of the refugee group, who arrived on Sunday on the Lift-C-17 military force with the Indian Air Force.
Like Iknoor, among those who might arrive on the next flight operated are two more babies – one born on August 11 and the others were born in May.
Afghan crisis: Direct update, far from the center of attention, Iknoor and his parents tried to recover in relatives’ homes, after leaving their homes and a shop that was the source of their livelihood.
Speaking to Ti by telephone, the voice of Innoor’s father will falter when he remembers developments over the past 10 days.
He shared that two older children aged five and three had a passport.
If the Indian government is not advancing to facilitate the journey of iknoor they will not be able to escape to safety.
The family has spent three days at a sanctuary of a Gurudwara in Kabul before they were evacuated.
Here in Delhi, Kerpal Singh currently lives with his sister who left Afghanistan two years ago due to increased violence.
Still the early days for him to decide where the future lies in his family.
This story is just one of many who reflects despair and fear that makes the family leave everything to seek protection from what has been recently at home.
“So far, 67 Afghanistan-Sikh and Hindus have arrived on two evacuation flights and around 165 were more expected on Thursday,” said Puneet Singh Chandhok, President, World Forum India to Ti.
Community members share that around 90 families, including 407 Afghanistan-Sikh and Hinduism, came to India for the past year because of the deteriorating situation in this country.
On the current air elevator, besides the Hindu-Sikh minority, around 60 strange Afghans also arrived in India.
Community members in Delhi also said that there were more than 2 lakh Afghan Sikh and Hinduism in Afghanistan but decades of violence and fear of the Taliban caused the exodus that had left only a few, which also could not live in their documents and visa formalities were completed.
Human Rights Activists and MP Afghanistan Anarkali Honaryar, who along with their parents and brothers, are among the refugees who arrived in Delhi on Sunday, said that he did not just leave his house, but also all the education evidence obtained at Middle.
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