Bareilly: When Santoshi last spoke to her brother, Jeet Bahadur Thapa, on Friday morning, he was stranded near Kabul Airport but made him promise – he would be in the next flight match, just in time for Raksha Bandhan on Sunday.
But the concern was installed for the family in Shahjahanpur above on Saturday, as the clock passed but there was no word from Thapa, who worked as a supervisor at a private company in Kabul.
“He sent us a message every few hours to tell us that he was safe.
But more than 36 hours had passed and we hadn’t heard of news from him.
We were very worried when we heard that Indians went to the airport picked up by the Taliban.
My brother should also leave to the airport …
“Santoshi said.
There was an initial report that day 150 Indians were “picked up” by the Taliban.
Then, the media report said that Indian citizens were taken to the nearest police station to be questioned and released while Hindu and Sikh Afghanistan returned.
Indian citizens are within Kabul Airport waiting for evacuation.
For Thapa families, the news brings a little relief.
“Nobody really knows what’s happening there.
If he is safe, why don’t we hear from Jeet? He knows how worried we are,” Santoshi said.
On Friday, the 35-year-old had told his family that he had sheltered at the military base near the airport and survived on the biscuits.
“I urged the Head of Yogi Minister Adyityath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring all the Indians who were stranded again as soon as possible,” Mrs.
Dhan Devi, the wife of the former soldier, told Tii.
Devi said that he last met his son on November 2020.
“If I know something like this will happen, I will not let him go,” he said.
Family members said they also contacted the external ministry and were told that the name Thapa was added to the list of Indians stranded with the ministry.
“They told us that he would be brought to India soon.
But no one updated us.
Meanwhile, what we can do is pray,” Devi said.