Frustrated, Aaden asked the Sapo agents to help him understand how Damaal was "radicalised".
Aaden had clung to those words for three years, he told Al Jazeera. But it was not enough. He needed to know how his son was doing.After several conversations, Aaden agreed to facilitate a visit to Aamiina and the three children in Syria’s Roj detention camp, where they were being held.
But he also wanted someone to visit his son in prison to check on him.The wife: A windowless worldAamina spends her days confined, and managing her children’s confinement.
The 30-something-year-old feels lucky to have made friends in the Roj detention camp, a group of Somali-British detainees who taught her English and help her look after her children, a favour she reciprocates.Their living arrangement is a bit better than others, too, thanks to the money her extended family sends her.
She used $150 to buy an additional tent, setting the two up to create a small inner courtyard where her seven-year-old son can run around and expend some of his boundless energy.
They also have a television, on which the children watch nature documentaries - a "window to the outside world" for children who have known nothing but detention camps their entire lives.Raza, who was part of Zimbabwe’s Test team until Saturday afternoon, joined the Qalandars’ playing XI 10 minutes prior to the toss for the final on Sunday evening in Pakistan’s eastern metropolis.
The Pakistan-born off-break bowler and lower-middle-order batter took one wicket and scored 22 runs off seven balls as Lahore chased a target of 202 with one ball to spare.Lahore’s run chase was largely built around Kusal Perera’s 62 runs, with support from top-order batters Mohammad Naeem and Abdullah Shafique, but it was Raza’s whirlwind journey from the United Kingdom to Pakistan and his subsequent role in hitting the winning runs that stole the show and Lahori hearts.
The 39-year-old recounted his last 24 hours by saying he had “dinner in Birmingham, breakfast in Dubai, lunch in Abu Dhabi and flew straight to Lahore for the PSL final”.Raza bowled 25 overs in the Test on Friday and batted for 20-plus overs on Saturday before leaving for Pakistan.