During the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year, an infant was caught by an army wall in chaos during the US withdrawal.
The baby was handed over to relatives in the Afghan capital, Kabul, yesterday.
Sohail Ahmadi, a two-month-old baby boy, went missing on August 19 as thousands of Afghans sought to leave the country as soon as possible after the Taliban took over, according to Reuters.
Hamid Safi, a 29-year-old taxi driver, saw the child at Kabul airport and took him home to raise him.
However, after almost seven weeks of negotiations, petitions and then brief detention by Taliban police, Hamid Safi finally handed the child over to his grandfather in Kabul and other relatives who are still in Afghanistan. ۔
The boy's relatives say they will now try to reunite him with his parents and siblings who moved to the United States months ago.
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August last year, the boy's father, Mirza Ali Ahmadi, and his wife feared their son would be crushed in a crowd.
The boy's father worked as a security guard at the US embassy.
Mirza Ali told Reuters in early November last year that in a fit of frustration and haste, he had handed Sohail a uniformed soldier over the airport wall.
He believed that he was a US soldier and hoped that in a short time he would cover the remaining five meters and take his child back to the entrance.
However, at the same time, the Taliban forces pushed the crowd back, which caused Mirza Ali, his wife and four other children to go inside for another half an hour, but the child was nowhere to be found.
Mirza Ali said he eagerly searched for his son at the airport and was told by officers that his son had been taken out of the country and would be handed over later. ۔
Mirza Ali, his wife and four other children arrived at a military base in the US state of Texas and for months they had no idea where their child was.
The incident represents the tragedy of parents who were separated from their children during a hasty evacuation of the United States after a 20-year war.
The lack of a large presence of US embassies and international organizations in Afghanistan has made it difficult for Afghan refugees to get a timely response or the possibility of such a complex reunion.
The State Department, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
