Searched so that no one knows it .. The story of the escape of the most famous Afghan singer after the control of the “Taliban”

An Afghan singer, who calls for the empowerment of women and the exercise of their rights, wore a full veil that she covered her entire body, in an attempt to escape her country after the takeover of the country by the Taliban.

Ariana Saeed wore the all-encompassing veil in Kabul in recent months in an effort to promote a popular designer clothing chain after returning from a business trip to Turkey and Britain.

She said in a statement to “Reuters” that she “booked a flight out of the country on August 15 with her fiance Haseeb Saeed after receiving a phone call warning her of Taliban control over the country.”

She added that “the Taliban imposed brutal restrictions on the country during their previous reign twenty years ago, preventing women from getting education or going out on the streets, under the pretext of respecting Islamic law.”

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Haseeb said that “their flight, which was scheduled for last week, did not take off on time, as it was the same day the Taliban took over the airport, and we experienced terrifying hours amid bombardments and gunfire everywhere “.

Wearing a headscarf, revealing only her eyes, Ariana and her fiance passed five Taliban checkpoints on their way to the airport, taking Saeed’s young cousin with them to pretend they were family roaming the streets, without revealing the identity of the famous singer.

Saeed said: “We were terrified during traffic as someone stopped our car, but as soon as he saw the little boy he thought we were a lost family on the road. go fast before you catch yourself. “

He continued, “As soon as we got to the airport, American forces were still controlling parts of the airport. We saw a Canadian who yelled at the American soldiers and said, let him pass. a famous singer, and if the Taliban recognize him, they will kill them immediately. Indeed, they allowed us to enter to protect ourselves. “

After two consecutive days, the duo managed to leave Kabul aboard an American military plane, which landed them in Qatar, then in the United States, which they plan to return to Turkey via Amsterdam in the coming days.

Source: “Reuters”

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