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Nasrullah Alizada sits on a chair in a waiting room at Emirates Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi.
He and his wife are surrounded by their four children, who are running between the legs of the complex’s staff as they search a cardboard box full of Afghan passports.
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We are here for whatever they need. We are not going anywhere
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Mr Alizada, originally from Bamiyan, a province in central Afghanistan, was working in Kabul on the day the Taliban took the city.
They are members of Afghanistan’s Hazara community, who are mostly Shiites and were persecuted by the Taliban their previous rule, so Mr Alizada knew they would not be safe if they stayed. He rushed his family to the airport, where they were ushered on to an evacuation flight bound for the UAE.
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“You cannot imagine what we went through, just at Kabul airport,” he said.
