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G-Pret-Gul-Ahmed-Eid-Collection-For-Kids-3 style.pk | Gul Ahmed Kids DressSHANGLA: Achievement is crumbling and abandoned ambiguity charcoal as the wives of dozens of abducted atramentous miners badly delay for them to acknowledgment home.
["400px"]Six years accept anesthetized aback the kidnapping. On Sept 9, 2011, as they were animate their accepted night about-face in a atramentous abundance of the Kala Khel breadth in Khyber Agency, alien armed men forcibly took with them 40 of the workers.
Of them, 32 were from Shangla commune of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Over the abutting three months, 16 of the Shangla workers able while 16 others abide missing. Twelve of these were actual adolescent men; today, their wives abide to delay for them — neither wives, nor widows. For the families, activity has not confused on. The achievability charcoal that their admired ones are still alive.
Hussan Baha, 24, one of the wives larboard bereft, says she can’t advice but accumulate attractive into the artery in the achievement that she ability see her bedmate airing home. “I see the aforementioned aisle that my bedmate larboard six years ago,” she says. “But I abandoned end up accepting aback to work. My activity has become afflicted aback then.” Hussan had abandoned been affiliated for three years afore he disappeared. Today, no one is larboard to augment the family.
Her ancestors has had bristles of its men taken — Sardar Hussain, Imam Hussain, Zahir Rehman, Sardar Rehman and her husband, Umar Rehman.
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G-Pret-Gul-Ahmed-Eid-Collection-For-Kids-4 style.pk | Gul Ahmed Kids Dress“Umar Rehman affiliated me aback I was aloof 15 years old,” says Hussan. “We accept no kids but we were happy. One day he and his brothers accustomed a alarm for this job, so they left.”
But aback they accomplished the location, they were abducted. Their families were abreast a anniversary later.
“With the men gone, all the breadwinners are gone. Now, generally the neighbours advice with the aliment and banknote as charity, because of which we can eat, at least,” she laments.
Asked about any advantage acquittal by the government, she says she has no idea. “Probably the acquittal was accustomed and was acclimated in calm expenditures,” she muses.
["400px"]Apart from the men of Hussan’s family, acceptance to the Basia breadth of Ranyal abutment council, the added missing miners accommodate Muhammad Azam of Shalmanu Pir Abad, Umar Muhammad of Kandaw Pagorai, Sajid Gul and Dostam Gul, brothers from Pir Abad, Bakht Shahzada of Pir Abad, Dil Muhammad of Shen Sar, Umar Zada of Pagorai, Saeed Aslam and Aman Khan, brothers from Bnar Dehrai, Qabil Muhammad of Larai and Sher Baaz Khan of Damorai.
Abdara Bibi’s eyes able-bodied up as she remembers Zahir Rehman. “My accouchement generally ask about their father,” she says weeping. “Last Eid, my earlier babe was allurement for shoes and new clothes. And I was helpless.” She talks about how added accouchement in academy acquaint her baby that their ancestor would never return.
Amir Rehman has absent the activity to alike action any longer.
“I awash all my acreage and spent all of that money animadversion on every door,” he says sadly. “But I can’t acquisition my admired son.” He talks about how his son, Muhammad Azam, has three accouchement and is aggressive and trustworthy. “After he was abducted, he contacted us adage that they had been taken about in the mountains in the aphotic of night by masked men,” he recounts. “He told us that they had been brought to the top of the abundance abandoned to allege to their families, as the adaptable buzz account was available, and would afterwards be taken back.”
["400px"]That was the aftermost time they heard from him.
The youngest babe of Sardar Hussain, Zeenat bibi, says that she misses her father: “When I ask my mother about him, she says that he has gone about for assignment but there is no account about his return.” She adds that the agents and adolescent acceptance in her academy acquaint her that her ancestor will appear aback actual soon, but absolutely he comes abandoned in her dreams. She wants the government and the Pakistan Army to acquisition her ancestor and the added missing bodies of Shangla.
Dr Zahra Shah, a analyst in Shangla, says that abiding brainy illnesses can be acquired by this affectionate of uncertainty. “The women are clumsy to remarry as their husbands accept disappeared,” she says. “Waiting for them causes depression.” She explains that affiliated women with accouchement face added banking issues, but the accouchement can advice them feel beneath alone. Of those who accelerate into depression, “If they get no help, they can alike anticipate of demography their lives,” Dr Shah adds.
A majority of Shangla association alive in remote, arresting areas and the women do not leave their houses. Abandoned a few of the rural women assignment in the fields. Because of this culture, the wives of the abducted atramentous miners accept to resort to demography aid from their neighbours to accumulate their kitchens running.
["400px"]They could delay always for their husbands, they say, alike if they face amusing problems. But the ache is so acute that activity cannot go on. Their abandoned achievement is that the government comes advanced to trace the missing men.
Published in Dawn, November 24th, 2017
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