DNA exclusive: Heartwrenching pictures show Taliban's terrorising takeover of Afghanistan

Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary speaks about the heartbreaking videos and pictures that have emerged in recent days, from helpless mothers crying and throwing their babies across the wall towards foreign troops at Kabul airport and, desperate people falling to their deaths from aircraft, after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

New Delhi: There is a barbed wire separating the US and UK troops from the thousands of desperate Afghans trying to flee the country at Kabul airport. From behind the wire and gates, these men and women have been crying for help from the troops. A report by Sky News narrated how the daily experience of standing guard against the Taliban and the thousands of Afghans pleading for help have been haunting the troops. A senior British official told reporters that some of the troops were crying at night after seeing women throwing their children over barbed wire, asking soldiers to catch them on the other side. 

After the Taliban insurgents took control of Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans were seen rushing to the airport in a bid to hope that they would be able to jet off on a plane and escape the barbaric torture of the Taliban. However, after they realised that it was difficult to enter the airport, these people decided to stay out and send their children inside the airport, so as to secure their lives. Shocking videos have surfaced on social media showing women and parents throwing their children on the barbed wire towards troops at Kabul airport pleading with them to 'catch the little ones'. The pictures and clips are heartwarming enough to disrupt your sleep for the next few nights. 

After 20 years of war, the Taliban swept to victory and completed their shocking rapid advances across the country by capturing Kabul on August 15. This came after US and UK troops announced their withdrawal following a deal between the US and Taliban, two decades after US forces overthrew insurgents from power in 2001. The conflict has killed thousands of people and left millions displaced. 

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Children and parents of those born in Afghanistan in the last two decades must have dreamt of a better life. Some of them had wanted to be a sportsman or a doctor or engineer and some may be scientists. However, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country and taking refugees to the UAE, thereby leaving the country and its citizens at the hands of the Taliban, changed everything.

A similar dream was seen by 19-year-old Afghan footballer Zaki Anwari, who was among those killed after he clung to a US military aircraft leaving Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to Doha. According to reports, his remains were found in the wheel well of the aircraft when it landed in Doha. According to a report on france24.com, Anwari was identified as one of those who had stormed the runway in a desperate bid to cling on to evacuating flights. The report said that he was a high school student and a member of the country`s national junior football team.

According to a report on dailymail.co.uk, he was trapped in the landing gear of a US evacuation flight.

The current situation in Afghanistan has destroyed the lives and dreams of thousands of youths in Afghanistan. People who have somehow managed to enter the Kabul airport are not even sure whether they will be able to survive or not. Those who are still waiting on the other side of the airport, desperate to leave the country, know well that they can anytime face bullets from Taliban fighters.