It comes as a second group of New Zealand evacuees has made it out of Kabul and are awaiting for a commercial flight home. Bakhsh kept in contact with his wife day after day and night after night as she tried to leave Kabul with their toddler. Some of the New Zealand forces had given them their jackets to cover him during the night, I was really touched by that." Diamond Kazimi was an interpreter for the defence force, and now lives in Hamilton. I had raised it to immigration previously as well, that there's conflict, there's Covid, there's kidnappings, there's bombings.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 24, 2021 19:52 UTC