Kolkata: As news about the Taliban entered Kabul and took over the President’s Palace coming on Sunday afternoon, Dildar Khan, height, Afghanistan knelt on the ground to offer Namaz in Maidan, thousands of miles away.
Dressed in the thick pathani, when he folded his hands and raised them in the air to pray, his eyes changed moist by thinking about younger defilements and his family in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, along with millions of others Afghanists returned to his country who had been thrown into uncertainty by withdrawing American troops and the next Taliban takeover.
“Watan (country) I will go through another Azmaish (test) but we are a formidable tribe that will fight these forces.
I pray today for the welfare of my younger brother and his family and millions of Afghans who might become uncertain , “Dildar said, a second generation Afghane in Kolkata.
Nearly 50 Afghans in their pathanis, embroidered vests and great turbans with Fantail joined in prayers with a heavy heart on Sunday afternoon.
They gathered in Maidan every Sunday to play cricket and sing Pashto ballads.
But their hearts are heavy this Sunday.
“Two decades ago, with the defeat of Taliban, we hope there will be a new beginning to our homeland.
Many young people start dreaming of prosperous future in their own country.
Now, everything seems uncertain,” Yahya Gul said after offering Namaz.
Diaspora Afghanistan in Kolkata is now around 7,000 strong.
Many buildings at Chandni Chowk, Jalan Madan, Bentinck Street and other parts of Kolkata are still identified as Pathan Kothis, where these people remain in settings like the commune.
A very anxious week, said City Afghanseven now, for many Bengalis, the image of an Afghanistan gave rahmat Khan, Kabuliwala fiction from the eponymous story of Tagore, then made into a popular film starring Chhabi Biswas in the role of titular.
Here, Rahmat, a dried fruit seller from Kabul, befriended a little girl, mini, who reminded him of his daughter he left behind in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has come to Kolkata for centuries to sell dry fruits, asafoetida and carpets.
But most men now in the business lend money, become an integral part of the microeconomic from the collapse work population.
Afghan file images enjoy a pleasant afternoon in Maidan “this has been a very anxious week for us, watching home developments on television.
We strive to keep in touch with our family and relatives at home but very little information entered,” said Shadab Khan.
Some senior Kabulilas remembered the fall of Kabul in the mid-1990s and said the sequence of events then made them worse.
“Mohammed Najibullah Ahmedzai was Afghan President between 1987 and 1992.
The Taliban, after arresting Kabul in 1996, carried out it and made his body brutally full glare.
We only hope that the same brutal is not repeated now,” said Amir Khan, who has lived in Kolkata for more than four decades.
People from Bengal are trapped in Kabul: Reports of people from Bengal can be trapped in Kabul and are still waiting to be evacuated, the preliminary report shows on Monday.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has also written a letter about this to the Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, gave the name of two people with their passports and telephone numbers.
The numbers remain unreachable.
In Darjeeling, Bandana Rai Thapa complained that her husband Chandra Kumar was trapped in Kabul after he went to work as a security guard.