Re: British ctizens in Pak asked to register with Embassy
that must have been something. I have heard of other kuwait cases as well. in my dad's case, i was not born so I only hear the stories, I suppose in your case u dealt with the uncertainty and stress personally. must have been tough.
Those were sometimes........I was an eighth grader then. My dad sent my mom, me and along with my brother on a bus to port city-Basra, Iraq from were we boarded a ship(Akbar, a Indian haj liner) to Dubai. From Dubai we were evacuated to Mumbai and then boarded a train to Delhi. The whole ordeal took us seven days. My father was not allowed to leave Kuwait, because he was the only Senior Mechanical engineer who knew to run the power plant in Kuwait. The Iraqis were good to him and had issued him a VIP ID which avoided trouble frm the Iraqi forces. They had a makeshift Indian embassy at my school were some Pakistanis were issued Indian passport to escape from Kuwait as Iraqis were very hostile to Pakis. There were stories about the Iraqi forces killing Pakis left right and center. I remember meeting few Pakistanis in the ship, and I wonder how they would have travelled to Pakistan or maybe they are still in India living their life as an Indian. At the powerplant where my father worked, the Iraqis had planted explosives and had plans to blow it up before they left Kuwait. They told my father that he would be given ample time to evacuate from the premises if they had plans to blow it up. When the US Army liberated Kuwait, my dad witnessed thosands of dead Iradi soldiers on the streets of Kuwait (Most of the Iraqi soldiers were high school kids with an AK-47). I had too witnessed Kuwaiti resistance fighting with the Iraqi soldiers and saw gunshots fired every other day. At eleven years of age, there is more of excitement than fear of lil' battles. After the US army liberated Kuwait, my father contacted my brother in US thru them who inturn informed us in India that he was safe and sound after two months of ongoing war.