Nimisha Fathima was a young woman from Kerala who had surrendered to Afghan forces after joining the terror group ISIS. She was imprisoned in Kabul for four years, along with her four-year-old daughter, after her husband was killed in a US airstrike on an ISIS base. Nimisha’s mother, Bindu Sampath, had been pleading with the Indian government to help bring her daughter and granddaughter back home.
When the Taliban took over Kabul and opened the gates of the jail, Nimisha and hundreds of other prisoners were released. However, Bindu was worried about their safety, particularly her granddaughter’s, who turned five on the day of their release. She feared that they might fall into the hands of the Taliban.
According to Bindu, the Indian government had handed over Nimisha and her daughter to terrorists instead of bringing them back home. Bindu claimed that her daughter had been brainwashed by terrorists and a doctor, who was with her in a coaching center in Thiruvananthapuram. She alleged that 21 people from Kerala had gone missing in 2017, and the mastermind was Abdul Rasheed and four others.
Bindu had been appealing to Kerala Minister Muraleedharan and others for help in bringing her daughter and granddaughter back home. She had even filed a petition in court seeking her daughter’s return, which was coming up the following Tuesday.
“My granddaughter will be five years tomorrow. I haven’t seen her yet. When my daughter was traveling, she was seven months pregnant. I complained to the authorities about the man who took her and 21 others, but no action has been taken. Only I am the victim, harassed and bullied by the media, by everyone,” Ms Sampath told NDTV.
Bindu Sampath says that if her daughter had done anything wrong to her country, she should be allowed to go through the Indian law. Bindu was determined to take care of her granddaughter, but she feared that if Nimisha was not deported from Afghanistan, her granddaughter might become prey to terrorists.
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