bdnews24.com :
The Bangladesh ambassador to Afghanistan has information on seven of the nine Bangladeshis in Kabul as the Taliban are set to take control of the country 20 years after their US-led ouster.
Six Bangladeshi workers of BRAC International in Afghanistan have taken shelter at the home of the organisation’s country director, Md Zahangir Alam said on Sunday evening.
Three other Bangladeshis had been in
a prison. One of them contacted the embassy after the Taliban freed the prisoners.
Three Bangladeshis left Afghanistan for home on Friday and the six others are scheduled to leave by Aug 22, according to BRAC.
The ambassador to Uzbekistan, Zahangir works with concurrent accreditation to Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as Bangladesh has no embassy in the two central Asian countries.
He said he had talked to Karim Sikder of Dhaka, the senior most among the BRAC employees in Kabul. They are trying to catch a flight on Aug 18, according to the ambassador.
The five others are Asaduzzaman of Rangpur, Mohammad Sarfaraj of Dhaka, Kamal Hossain of Jashore, Rafiqul Haque Mridha of Faridpur, and Yusuf Hossain of Noakhali.
The ambassador could not confirm whether the three Bangladeshi inmates, Moin Al Mesbah of Khulna, Kausar Sultan of Dhaka and Obaidullah of Noakhali, left Pul-e-Charkhi prison after the Taliban takeover. One of them has been advised to avoid the Taliban and return home in the next available flight, said Zahangir.
