Wahid Ibrahimi, who worked as a security guard at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, fled with his family to Pakistan when the Taliban took over. Advocacy group Operation Abraham helped get them to safety
Wahid Ibrahimi’s family gathered in a hotel room in Ottawa on Wednesday evening, exhausted but incredibly relieved, after months of struggling to survive in Pakistan while they waited to come to Canada.
Just a few months ago, the family’s spirits were at their lowest. They are from Afghanistan, where Mr. Ibrahimi worked as a security guard at the Canadian embassy in Kabul until summer 2021. When the Taliban took over the country, Mr. Ibrahimi feared the new fundamentalist regime would seek revenge on him and his family for his service to Canada. And so they fled to the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. They had been stranded there for six months when The Globe and Mail first met them, in November.
Mr. Ibrahimi said his children were targeted because they are Ismaili Hazaras, a long-persecuted religious minority. The entire family of 11 lived and slept on the floor in one small room. They shared one meal a day, doing what they could to survive. When The Globe met the Ibrahimis in Rawalpindi last fall, they feared for their safety after someone doused their son in hot liquid when he was playing outside. Mr. Ibrahimi showed scars he received in the line of duty in Afghanistan.The Ibrahimis arrive at Toronto's Pearson airport on Feb. 8 after a long wait for Canadian officials to give the go-ahead to travel.One of their rescuers greeted them at the hotel Wednesday evening.
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