'I won't leave without them' Glasgow cabbie stuck in Pakistan after fleeing Kabul in wait for UK Gov to help family
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots cabbie who was left stranded in Pakistan after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban can return to the UK but would need to leave his wife and young children behind.
Jan Mohammed Ahmadzai won't leave his without his family and is in a desperate wait for the UK government to get them out. The 42-year-old has lived and worked in Glasgow for 16 years and was visiting his wife and children in Kabul, where they live, when the city fell to the Taliban in August last year.
In November we told how the family had been authorised to get on a British evacuation flight, but outbreaks of violence made it too unsafe for them to get to the airport.Instead, they fled to Pakistan.Jan has a British passport and has now managed to get his Pakistan visa so can fly back into the UK, but he has been forced to delay his homecoming as he is terrified to leave his family in danger.Wife Wakeela and children Wajid, 11, Yousaf, 10, Leena, seven, Sammi, five, and baby Ishaq do not have British passports as they remained in Afghanistan while Jan worked in the UK.The desperate family have pinned all of their hopes on the new Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, which they are eligible for, but have heard nothing from the Government since it started on January 6.Speaking to the Record, Jan said: "I can come back to the UK but what about my family?
I can't leave them."The scheme started on the 6th of January but we still haven't heard anything."We cannot go back to Afghanistan.
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