Help our families reunite: Plea of Afghans in Ireland

Hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul this week  as desperate crowds try to flee the country. Picture: AP Photo

When Nasruddin Saljuqi arrived in Ireland as a refugee in 2000, he was one of very few Afghans living here at the time. He travelled with his wife and four children – all of whom went on to university and PhD-level education.

As the world's eyes turn to Afghanistan in 2021 – Mr Saljuqi's life demonstrates how the conflict there goes back decades. He fled Afghanistan for Iran in 1991, more than 10 years after the Soviets invaded his country.