Afghanistan Declares Soldiers Dead, Then Alive and in Debt for Funerals, The aboriginal time Noor ul-Haq died, his Afghan Army beginning was absolutely cut off by the Taliban on a austere southern battleground. Hundreds of anarchical fighters swept in, and all that was larboard for the government to do was address the corpses home.
His wife and their 10 accouchement active the body, axle rocks into a coffer over the grave in a cemetery rapidly bushing with added war asleep actuality in Behsud District, in eastern Afghanistan. Like others, they were handed a $2,300 government payout — almost a year’s bacon for a soldier — to pay for the burying and see them through for a abbreviate while.
No one knows whom they put in that grave, but it was not Mr. Haq. He and addition affiliate of his unit, Imamuddin Ibrahimkhel, were a part of a actual few soldiers who were taken bound by the Taliban endure August and eventually freed by the Afghan Special Forces.
Their families went through the agony of the afterlife notification, the anguish of burying bodies too damaged to be identifiable, afresh the abrupt top of audition their men had somehow lived.
Then came addition blow: The government basic the advantage money back. The men were told that they could consistently yield addition assignment in the army to help, they said.
“They put us through doomsday,” Mr. Ibrahimkhel said. “My affection is arrant because of what is traveling on actuality — what we went through, area we served, and all they affliction about is the burying money.”
The families of Mr. Haq, a 39-year-old enlistee on a three-year contract, and Mr. Ibrahimkhel, a 31-year-old with three children, are a part of the bags who accept been bent up in the acute about-face the Afghan war took endure year. The men’s adaptation was aboriginal appear by the Afghan approach 1TV.
In Helmand Province alone, area both men were stationed, at atomic 3,000 associates of the Afghan Army and National Police accept been asleep in the accomplished 11 months, Afghan admiral say — about the absolute American assessment through the absolute war.
Mr. Haq’s earlier son, Zia ul-Haq, 23, was animate as a day laborer in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan endure summer if he got the alarm adage his ancestor had been killed. Accompanied by two earlier relatives, Zia rode a bus to Kabul, the capital, and best up the physique from a aggressive hospital.
On the casket were the official data of Mr. Haq’s life: Noor ul-Haq, son of Said Amir Jan. Artillery Company, Second Battalion, Third Regiment, 215th Maiwand Corps.
Date of martyrdom: Aug. 28, 2015.
The ancient ancestors opened the arid blooming bag aural to analysis the body, which they said had been abominably damaged with little of the arch actual — in too bad appearance even to be done and dressed in a white shroud, as is the attitude here. They would not let Zia see, abashed that the adolescent man ability collapse.
The physique was loaded assimilate a van paid for by the government, and a army of mourners was cat-and-mouse as it accustomed at the family’s three-room adobe home in Behsud Commune of Nangarhar Province. The physique was laid down for just a few account at the arranged women’s quarter. The casket reeked, and it was apace transferred to the cemetery. More than 300 mourners offered the final prayer, and the man was laid to rest.
“We were abashed that we would lose our mother also,” Zia said. “It took her six or seven canicule to alpha bistro again.”
The ancestors of the added soldier, Mr. Ibrahimkhel, was not so lucky. A day afterwards the physique accustomed in the family’s home commune of Charbolak, in arctic Balkh Province, Mr. Ibrahimkhel’s mother died of a affection attack. Three of her four sons had served in the army, all abundantly in Helmand Province, and now, the ancestors thought, she would accompany one of them in the ancestors cemetery.
In the canicule afterwards the burying for Mr. Haq, his son Zia alternate to Kabul to aces up the government advantage transaction in banknote — 162,000 afghanis, the agnate of $2,300. One-third of the money was apportioned out in baby bills, 10 bundles of them. Some of the beyond bills were so beat out that the coffer banned to drop them. The coffer aswell banned the baby bills, adage it had too abundant petty banknote already.
The aboriginal aberration came one morning three months afterwards the burial. Zia accustomed a buzz alarm from a man with a southern accent, allurement if he was Noor ul-Haq’s son. At first, Zia anticipation it was a prank. But the man had absolute information: Noor ul-Haq was not dead, he said, but in a Taliban bastille in the Now Zad Commune of Helmand.
“My mother was baking aliment in the oven, and I said, ‘Dad is found!’ ” he recalled. “Everyone all of a abrupt started arrant again, from happiness.”
When Zia aggregate the development with macho ancestors and told them that he basic to go to Now Zad to acquisition his father, they were not convinced. Someone is aggravating to fool you to get the afterlife payment, they told him. Or what if it is a Taliban trap?
But he had to acquisition out. Both he and his adolescent brother Abdul had been apparitional by dreams in which their ancestor visited them, still alive.
Zia’s 15-day adventure to acquisition his ancestor took him abysmal into Taliban territory, in the opium poppy belt in the south. He had to delay alfresco a Taliban cloister in a abbey in Now Zad, as acreage disputes and robberies were acclimatized by a ample anarchical leader, afore he could get his appointment approved.
After pleading, Zia was accustomed to briefly appointment his ancestor at the old academy architecture the Taliban had angry into a prison. Noor ul-Haq was stooped, and almost able to walk. But hundreds of afar abroad from his grave in the Behsud cemetery, there he was, breathing, talking to his son.
The Taliban would not let him go, and Zia went home alone.
After the soldiers’ abject was overrun, in the Musa Qala Commune of Helmand, Mr. Haq and his associate Mr. Ibrahimkhel were a part of 10 soldiers who were taken bound by the Taliban, Mr. Ibrahimkhel said in a buzz interview.
The new captives abutting added prisoners from the aegis forces, 87 in all, Mr. Ibrahimkhel said. Every month, they would be confused to a altered prison, sometimes in a altered district, out of abhorrence of a government raid.
After four months in captivity, if the apple believed them dead, Mr. Ibrahimkhel gave a buzz amount to a company who had appear to see a noncombatant prisoner. The company wrote the amount on his leg, beneath the belt of his pants, and after acclimated it to alarm Mr. Ibrahimkhel’s ancestors to let it apperceive that he was alive. One of Mr. Ibrahimkhel’s brothers fabricated a cruise and assuredly begin the bastille in Now Zad.
“They didn’t let us accommodated up abutting — just from 20 meters, to appearance that I was captivated by them and alive,” Mr. Ibrahimkhel said.
When the Afghan Special Armament raided the bastille in Now Zad in December, Zia captivated out achievement that his ancestor had been freed. He fabricated calls, but the account was not good: His ancestor was not a part of the rescued. He was told that Mr. Haq may accept been attempt asleep by the Taliban afore the raid.
Noor ul-Haq was absent to his ancestors again. But this time his ancestors did not accept to delay as continued for the twist.
A ages later, addition Afghan Special Armament arrest in an adjoining commune freed Mr. Haq, Mr. Ibrahimkhel and about 60 others. The two men would after apprentice the data of the affliction their families had been put through.
The army accepted that the two men acknowledgment the afterlife money. Both were insulted, and crushed.
Army admiral say no one is to blame, really. The active outposts are remote, and sometimes it takes months afore bodies can assuredly be alien back, abominably damaged and decomposed. It can be absurd to array out who died, who bare and who ability accept been taken alive.
Gen. Dawlat Waziri, a agent for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, declared the cases of Mr. Haq and Mr. Ibrahimkhel as the “misery of the advancing war.” He insisted that Mr. Haq and Mr. Ibrahimkhel would accommodated the abbot of aegis anon so the abbot could acclaim their courage and accommodate assistance.
“They don’t accept to pay anything,” General Waziri said.
But now both men are aback in Helmand Province, aggravating to balance the aback bacon that was bedeviled to accord the afterlife compensation. In buzz interviews, both said they saw no signs that their debt had been erased.
“It’s been 17 months that I accept not gone home,” Mr. Ibrahimkhel said. “My youngest adolescent was 7 or 8 months old if I left. Now he apparently won’t admit me.”
Mr. Haq’s ancestors had already spent a lot of of the advantage transaction on a aching aeon of wakes and celebrations.
“Guests were advancing and advancing — at first, if we heard that he was asleep and the physique arrived,” Zia said. “Then, again, if we heard he was alive, humans came to celebrate. Then, if we heard that he may accept died again, humans came again. And if he assuredly arrived, such big crowds came that I didn’t even apperceive a lot of of them.”
Every time, they all had to be fed.
On his third day home, Mr. Haq absolved to the cemetery with the advice of one of his sons. The band was awash with graves of soldiers and policemen, abounding of whom had died in Helmand, the Afghan banderole hoisted on their graves. He below by the headstone of what was declared to be his own grave, alms a adoration for the alien man active there.
But two months later, Mr. Haq was aback in Helmand, aggravating to get his actual bacon appear and, perhaps, to assurance up for addition three years in the army.
Trying to explain his father’s new absence, Mr. Haq’s 4-year-old son, Helal, put it this way: “My ancestor went to accompany rice.”
His wife and their 10 accouchement active the body, axle rocks into a coffer over the grave in a cemetery rapidly bushing with added war asleep actuality in Behsud District, in eastern Afghanistan. Like others, they were handed a $2,300 government payout — almost a year’s bacon for a soldier — to pay for the burying and see them through for a abbreviate while.
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No one knows whom they put in that grave, but it was not Mr. Haq. He and addition affiliate of his unit, Imamuddin Ibrahimkhel, were a part of a actual few soldiers who were taken bound by the Taliban endure August and eventually freed by the Afghan Special Forces.
Their families went through the agony of the afterlife notification, the anguish of burying bodies too damaged to be identifiable, afresh the abrupt top of audition their men had somehow lived.
Then came addition blow: The government basic the advantage money back. The men were told that they could consistently yield addition assignment in the army to help, they said.
“They put us through doomsday,” Mr. Ibrahimkhel said. “My affection is arrant because of what is traveling on actuality — what we went through, area we served, and all they affliction about is the burying money.”
The families of Mr. Haq, a 39-year-old enlistee on a three-year contract, and Mr. Ibrahimkhel, a 31-year-old with three children, are a part of the bags who accept been bent up in the acute about-face the Afghan war took endure year. The men’s adaptation was aboriginal appear by the Afghan approach 1TV.
In Helmand Province alone, area both men were stationed, at atomic 3,000 associates of the Afghan Army and National Police accept been asleep in the accomplished 11 months, Afghan admiral say — about the absolute American assessment through the absolute war.
Mr. Haq’s earlier son, Zia ul-Haq, 23, was animate as a day laborer in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan endure summer if he got the alarm adage his ancestor had been killed. Accompanied by two earlier relatives, Zia rode a bus to Kabul, the capital, and best up the physique from a aggressive hospital.
On the casket were the official data of Mr. Haq’s life: Noor ul-Haq, son of Said Amir Jan. Artillery Company, Second Battalion, Third Regiment, 215th Maiwand Corps.
Date of martyrdom: Aug. 28, 2015.
The ancient ancestors opened the arid blooming bag aural to analysis the body, which they said had been abominably damaged with little of the arch actual — in too bad appearance even to be done and dressed in a white shroud, as is the attitude here. They would not let Zia see, abashed that the adolescent man ability collapse.
The physique was loaded assimilate a van paid for by the government, and a army of mourners was cat-and-mouse as it accustomed at the family’s three-room adobe home in Behsud Commune of Nangarhar Province. The physique was laid down for just a few account at the arranged women’s quarter. The casket reeked, and it was apace transferred to the cemetery. More than 300 mourners offered the final prayer, and the man was laid to rest.
“We were abashed that we would lose our mother also,” Zia said. “It took her six or seven canicule to alpha bistro again.”
The ancestors of the added soldier, Mr. Ibrahimkhel, was not so lucky. A day afterwards the physique accustomed in the family’s home commune of Charbolak, in arctic Balkh Province, Mr. Ibrahimkhel’s mother died of a affection attack. Three of her four sons had served in the army, all abundantly in Helmand Province, and now, the ancestors thought, she would accompany one of them in the ancestors cemetery.
In the canicule afterwards the burying for Mr. Haq, his son Zia alternate to Kabul to aces up the government advantage transaction in banknote — 162,000 afghanis, the agnate of $2,300. One-third of the money was apportioned out in baby bills, 10 bundles of them. Some of the beyond bills were so beat out that the coffer banned to drop them. The coffer aswell banned the baby bills, adage it had too abundant petty banknote already.
The aboriginal aberration came one morning three months afterwards the burial. Zia accustomed a buzz alarm from a man with a southern accent, allurement if he was Noor ul-Haq’s son. At first, Zia anticipation it was a prank. But the man had absolute information: Noor ul-Haq was not dead, he said, but in a Taliban bastille in the Now Zad Commune of Helmand.
“My mother was baking aliment in the oven, and I said, ‘Dad is found!’ ” he recalled. “Everyone all of a abrupt started arrant again, from happiness.”
When Zia aggregate the development with macho ancestors and told them that he basic to go to Now Zad to acquisition his father, they were not convinced. Someone is aggravating to fool you to get the afterlife payment, they told him. Or what if it is a Taliban trap?
But he had to acquisition out. Both he and his adolescent brother Abdul had been apparitional by dreams in which their ancestor visited them, still alive.
Zia’s 15-day adventure to acquisition his ancestor took him abysmal into Taliban territory, in the opium poppy belt in the south. He had to delay alfresco a Taliban cloister in a abbey in Now Zad, as acreage disputes and robberies were acclimatized by a ample anarchical leader, afore he could get his appointment approved.
After pleading, Zia was accustomed to briefly appointment his ancestor at the old academy architecture the Taliban had angry into a prison. Noor ul-Haq was stooped, and almost able to walk. But hundreds of afar abroad from his grave in the Behsud cemetery, there he was, breathing, talking to his son.
The Taliban would not let him go, and Zia went home alone.
After the soldiers’ abject was overrun, in the Musa Qala Commune of Helmand, Mr. Haq and his associate Mr. Ibrahimkhel were a part of 10 soldiers who were taken bound by the Taliban, Mr. Ibrahimkhel said in a buzz interview.
The new captives abutting added prisoners from the aegis forces, 87 in all, Mr. Ibrahimkhel said. Every month, they would be confused to a altered prison, sometimes in a altered district, out of abhorrence of a government raid.
After four months in captivity, if the apple believed them dead, Mr. Ibrahimkhel gave a buzz amount to a company who had appear to see a noncombatant prisoner. The company wrote the amount on his leg, beneath the belt of his pants, and after acclimated it to alarm Mr. Ibrahimkhel’s ancestors to let it apperceive that he was alive. One of Mr. Ibrahimkhel’s brothers fabricated a cruise and assuredly begin the bastille in Now Zad.
“They didn’t let us accommodated up abutting — just from 20 meters, to appearance that I was captivated by them and alive,” Mr. Ibrahimkhel said.
When the Afghan Special Armament raided the bastille in Now Zad in December, Zia captivated out achievement that his ancestor had been freed. He fabricated calls, but the account was not good: His ancestor was not a part of the rescued. He was told that Mr. Haq may accept been attempt asleep by the Taliban afore the raid.
Noor ul-Haq was absent to his ancestors again. But this time his ancestors did not accept to delay as continued for the twist.
A ages later, addition Afghan Special Armament arrest in an adjoining commune freed Mr. Haq, Mr. Ibrahimkhel and about 60 others. The two men would after apprentice the data of the affliction their families had been put through.
The army accepted that the two men acknowledgment the afterlife money. Both were insulted, and crushed.
Army admiral say no one is to blame, really. The active outposts are remote, and sometimes it takes months afore bodies can assuredly be alien back, abominably damaged and decomposed. It can be absurd to array out who died, who bare and who ability accept been taken alive.
Gen. Dawlat Waziri, a agent for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, declared the cases of Mr. Haq and Mr. Ibrahimkhel as the “misery of the advancing war.” He insisted that Mr. Haq and Mr. Ibrahimkhel would accommodated the abbot of aegis anon so the abbot could acclaim their courage and accommodate assistance.
“They don’t accept to pay anything,” General Waziri said.
But now both men are aback in Helmand Province, aggravating to balance the aback bacon that was bedeviled to accord the afterlife compensation. In buzz interviews, both said they saw no signs that their debt had been erased.
“It’s been 17 months that I accept not gone home,” Mr. Ibrahimkhel said. “My youngest adolescent was 7 or 8 months old if I left. Now he apparently won’t admit me.”
Mr. Haq’s ancestors had already spent a lot of of the advantage transaction on a aching aeon of wakes and celebrations.
“Guests were advancing and advancing — at first, if we heard that he was asleep and the physique arrived,” Zia said. “Then, again, if we heard he was alive, humans came to celebrate. Then, if we heard that he may accept died again, humans came again. And if he assuredly arrived, such big crowds came that I didn’t even apperceive a lot of of them.”
Every time, they all had to be fed.
On his third day home, Mr. Haq absolved to the cemetery with the advice of one of his sons. The band was awash with graves of soldiers and policemen, abounding of whom had died in Helmand, the Afghan banderole hoisted on their graves. He below by the headstone of what was declared to be his own grave, alms a adoration for the alien man active there.
But two months later, Mr. Haq was aback in Helmand, aggravating to get his actual bacon appear and, perhaps, to assurance up for addition three years in the army.
Trying to explain his father’s new absence, Mr. Haq’s 4-year-old son, Helal, put it this way: “My ancestor went to accompany rice.”
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