This story is from September 1, 2021

City woman, her 3 kids stuck in Afghanistan

City woman, her 3 kids stuck in Afghanistan
Kanpur:A resident of Babupurwa area of the city married to an Afghan national is stuck after Taliban took over the control of the war-torn country. Following this, her family has sought the city authorities, besides Foreign ministry’s help to bring her and her three children home.
Samirun Nisha, a resident of Chunnan’s building located in Baghahi of Babupurwa police station area, told that her daughter Hina Khan alias Pammo used to live with her uncle in Mumbai.
She used to work in a bar there, where she had met Mohammad Ghani, an Afghan national. Ghani thereafter married her daughter and started living in Mumbai. They had a son and two daughters.
According to Samirun, on August 28, her daughter Hina called her on her mobile phone and narrated her ordeal to her. “She told her that she is in Kabul’s Jurmut area some 80 km from Afghanistan with her children. She said that she had been sold by Ghani to someone and he himself had escaped to Mumbai. Ghani also had harassed her a lot and now she is being tortured by the people there. Ghani, however, had left them to die in Afghanistan and himself escaped to India, where he is living in Saat Rasta Jijamata Mahalakshmi in Mumbai Central area,” said Samirun Nisha while talking to reporters.
She further said that as she did not have an account in the bank, her daughter during her stay in Mumbai, where she was working in a bar, used to send her money every month through her relatives and Hina last came home (Kanpur) in 2013. Samirun said that her daughter was two months pregnant then and in the year 2014, Hina gave birth to her first child at a private hospital in Bagahi area of Babu Purwa. City police officials meanwhile told TOI, efforts to rescue Hina Khan and her children trapped in Afghanistan has started. On Monday, ADCP South Anil Kumar provided complete details to the Ministry of External Affairs.
City Police Commissioner Asim Kumar Arun and DCP South Raveena Tyagi have been briefed about the whole issue, he said. ADCP said that the helpline number is being run by the Ministry of External Affairs for the Indian nationals trapped in Afghanistan.
“We are in touch with the Ministry of External Affairs, help will be provided to the victim’s family. Every best possible effort will be made to bring the family back,” said ADCP further. Police commissioner Asim Kumar Arun said that in the complaint given by the woman -Samirun, she had accused her son-in-law of torturing her daughter. “Investigation in this regard has also started,” Arun added.
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