Afghan interpreter reunited with family on Canadian soil

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An Afghan interpreter has been reunited with her family in Canada after they were able to board one of the last evacuation flights out of Kabul.

Maryam Sahar told CTV National News that she has feared for the past decade that she would never see her brothers and mother again.

"I was a little scared how the reunion would go, but they turned out to be really, really nice men," Sahar said of her brothers in an interview with CTV News. Sahar was just 15 years old when she signed on to help the mission in Afghanistan and was the only local female interpreter for the Canadian Armed Forces. She ignored threats from the Taliban for helping Canada in the hopes of bringing peace to her homeland.

Now in Canada, the family hopes Omer can finish his studies to become a software engineer and that Ibrahim can also attend university in the future.

 

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