Taliban issue death decree for Afghan woman living in India
The woman is now settled in India and at present, Hayat (name changed) lives in New Delhi along with her two daughters.
FollowAfter the Taliban gained complete control over Afghanistan, as Afghan women fear for their lives and freedom, a nightmare has befallen a woman who fled the war-torn country.
The militant group has now issued a public death decree for an Afghan woman, who had left Afghanistan four years ago after she had divorced her husband when she found that he was allegedly an active member of the Taliban.
The woman is now settled in India and at present, Hayat (name changed) lives in New Delhi along with her two daughters. However, her other two daughters were allegedly sold by her husband to the Taliban.
According to Hayat, she now fears returning to Afghanistan as the Taliban has now issued a death decree on her.
Working as a gym trainer in Delhi, Hayat has built a home for herself, including her two daughters. In a conversation with IANS, Hayat shared her grief and said her husband had sold two of her daughters earlier to the Taliban.
She lives with her other two daughters aged 13 and 14 years.
She said that after her marriage, she came to know that her husband was a part of Taliban. "My husband tried to stab me four times the scars of which are still visible on my head, neck and fingers," IANS quoted Hayat as saying.
"I do not have an information about my two other daughters who have been sold to the Taliban. My husband told me that he will sell my other two daughters as well after which I was forced to leave Afghanistan fearing for my life," Hayat added as the report stated further.
Asked if she would like to return to Afghanistan, Hayat insisted that she will never return to her native country. "The Taliban have come out with a 'death warrant' for me. They will take away my other two daughters as well. The terrorist group has said 'Money has been spent to buy the children, now they are ours'. I can't return to Afghanistan fearing a threat to my daughters' lives," Hayat said.
Asked how she managed to escape from Afghanistan, she said, "At that time Afghanistan was not captured by the Taliban, I applied for my visa, before that I had visited India once so I had a little knowledge. Many people had helped me a lot then."
Asked how she learnt to speak Hindi, she replied that she was so fond of talking in Hindi she learnt it by watching Bollywood films.
She added, "Today Afghanistan is completely in shambles, I am happy staying in India, but I have yet to make my refugee card."
"We need the help of the Indian government as other Afghan people shy away from coming before the media to raise their voice against the Taliban that's why I am talking on behalf of them."
She said, "My father, who lives in Iraq, has received multiple letters threatening him to call me back to Afghanistan, even the Taliban has been telling him that they have traced my location."
According to Hayat, she wanted to divorce her husband which was not easy in Afghanistan. Her father and other family members have been receiving continuous death threats, but leaving everything behind she managed to divorce her husband and successfully fled to India along with her two daughters.
(With inputs from agency)
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