The little girl, whose birth name was Aliza, was only weeks old when her mother and father died in an attack claimed by the local chapter of Daesh terror group
The little girl, now believed to be about 21 months old and given the name Maryam by the orphanage, saw her uncle Yaar Mohammad Niazi and her brother and two sisters again for the first time.
"I did not know if we would ever find her again, and now I am overcome" with emotion, said Niazi, aged about 40 and with four children of his own. "When I held her, I just told myself, 'she is alive'." The little girl, whose birth name was Aliza, was only weeks old when her mother and father died in the attack claimed by the local chapter of Daesh terror group.Amid the carnage, a teenage boy grabbed her and carried her onto a US military flight taking Afghans and stranded expatriates to Doha, a Qatari official said.
"We took them in and gave them specialised care," said the Qatari official, speaking on condition of not being identified.The UN children's agency was quickly besieged with frantic requests from families back in Afghanistan looking for missing relatives.Niazi and the other three orphaned children were back in Afghanistan, where the Taliban installed a government for what they named the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
A three-year-old boy there has joined his father in Canada after a Qatari diplomat recognised him from a missing-child photo.
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