An Afghan boy who went missing during the hasty US-led evacuation from Kabul in August has been reunited with his family. Matthew Moore, reporting for DW News said that the boy’s parents were unable to find him after a split-second decision to hand him to a soldier amid chaos at Kabul Airport on August 19, and they ended up leaving for the US without him.
The lost baby Sohail Ahmadi, was just two months old when he went missing on August 19 as thousands of people rushed to leave Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban. Ahmadi was located in Kabul where a taxi driver named Hamed Safi had found him in the airport and took him home to raise as his own.
“I found him at the airport laying down in a very bad way. I looked around and showed this child to many people, but I couldn’t find anyone related to him,” said Hamed.
Farima Safi (Hamed Safi’s wife) raised this boy as he was her own, except Sohail Ahmady isn’t hers. He was separated from his parents during a melee at Kabul Airport, said Moore.
“I love this child a lot, but we cannot be his father and mother. He has to live with his parents, said Farima Safi.
“Like many babies, Sohail was thrust to the hands of soldiers amid frantic scenes,” added Moore.
Ahmadi was reunited with his grandfather, Mohammad Qasem Razawi with the help of an international campaign to locate the child, reported Moore. (ANI)
