KABUL (SW): Abudl Shakor was fighting on the battlefield in Kandahar against Taliban when he learned about the death of his children. He rushed to Kabul and saw the dead bodies of two of his beloved children killed in the tragic suicide attack in Kabul on Saturday where a suicide explosion killed more than 100 and wounded more than 250 in front of the Ministry of Interior.
Fayaz was a graduate of Faculty of Economics and Parviz was a third-year medical student. The two of them were killed in the attack on Saturday and with them, all their aspirations and desires were shattered as well.
Their father told Salam Watandar that he tried his best to fulfill his sons’ dreams and had always wished his sons achieve what they wanted for them in their lives. He said he always wished them to get marry and have grandchildren. “It is unbearable to see the result of a lifetime work to be destroyed in a few minutes”, he said.
He is heartbroken and calls the government officials apathetic to people’s lives. He blames the government for the death of his children and says that any disaster that has occurred is due to the negligence of the government.
With tears in his eyes and emotional state of mind, he prays to God that the senior government officials experience his pain so that they know what the pain of 'losing children' for a father is. Abdul Shakor said he doesn’t ask the government to provide them food but security.
Fayaz and Parviz had been education themselves to shoulder his father and reduce the economic burden on him. Bismillah, one of their relatives said that after he saw the dead bodies of the two brothers, he has no hope for life anymore. He said that these two young brothers had a world of dreams to become something for themselves and their country one day; however, it all went to the wind.
The horrendous and bloody attack on Saturday not only affected Abdul Shakor’s family but dozens of other families mourned the loss of their loved ones, a catastrophe that was neither the first nor the last.
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