Gulab lost  wife, children in airstrike 15-year ago

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Gulab Syed, the resident of Manogi district in eastern Kunar province, has been suffering from psychological illness after losing his wife and four sons in a US airstrike 15 years ago.

Hailing from the Krangal village, Gulab Syed, 50, said: “Fifteen years ago US forces bombarded my house and killed my wife and four children and now I am suffering from psychological illness.”

Syed who leaned on a bunch of wood he collected from the mountain said he inherited a lot of pain and sorrow after he lost her children and wife.

“People who lost their children could understand the pain I am going through,” he said.

He said he still remembered the time when bombs were falling on hid children and they had no way to escape.

“I went out of my house in the early morning to see the animals, suddenly I heard the sounds of bombs and fog was rising from our house, when I returned to home I saw everything were perished.”

Gulab added his elder son was 17 and the remaining were smaller and they all were killed with their mother in a room.

With his welled up eyes, Syed said had here was no fighting in the country he would have not seen the pain at this magnitude.

“It would have been the script of my life. I lost my family and I will  never forget them,” he added.

Gulab said, got another marriage and has four sons from his second wife, he hoped his 2^nd family will live in peace and will not fall victim of conflict like his previous family.

Shakirullah, the resident of Aliabad valley in Kunar, said most people like Gulab had lost their family members during the past conflict.

He said: “Gulab is our neighbor and his family members were martyred in the airstrike 15 years ago. He got four more children after getting married for the second time.”

Kunar Information Director Mawlavi Najibullah Hanif said most families have suffered as a result of the past conflict in Kunar and there was need for support to them.

“Efforts are on to provide support to the families of the past conflict in different areas,” said Hanif.

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