I had to run, else Taliban would have killed me: Afghan intel officer who took last flight to Delhi
The Hindu
The 41-year-old officer took the last commercial flight from Kabul to Delhi on August 15 to escape "certain death", leaving behind his ailing mother, wife and an eight-year-old son
"I had to run, else the Taliban would have killed me. Everything ends here. I could not bring my family along," Afghan intelligence officer Asif said in broken Hindi as tears welled up in his eyes, hours after he landed in Delhi. The 41-year-old officer took the last commercial flight from Kabul to Delhi on August 15 to escape "certain death", leaving behind his ailing mother, wife and an eight-year-old son. A compatriot helped Mr. Asif find a modest accommodation — a small room, attached bathroom and a marble slab with a sink that he called kitchen — in Lajpat Nagar for ₹500 a day.
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