afghan man shot to save three australian women in a taliban attack in kabul

Hollywood movies often portray heroes dying to save the lives of an innocent family, but sometimes it happens in reality.
Fahim Harkin in Kabul, Afghanistan is real-
On January 2018, he was under intense siege by Taliban militants at the Inter-State Hotel in Kabul.
The day after the attack, Australian Afghans flew to Dubai.
Hakim was sent to India for treatment.
In a Skype interview that linked Australia to India, Hakim shared fears and shock in the face of Taliban attackers and re-spoke with those who shot and killed him.
\"There was a gunman who said, \'These people are all foreigners, \'and then opened fire at random and turned to us.
\"All the guests are screaming and trying to hide somewhere,\" he said . \".
\"I am before them;
A person is very excited.
I said, \'We are Afghans. we are not foreigners. we are a family here;
Don\'t shoot my family if you want, you can shoot me.
\"The gunman shot him dead immediately and he fell to the ground.
Fahim Hakim, who lives in Kabul, has experienced a lot of bombs and killings before, however, in the attack on the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul on January 20, he did not see what he saw through his eyes, the attack killed more than 40 people.
Mr. Harkin is now a freelance consultant, and as a former deputy chairman of the Afghanistan Independent Rights Commission, he has an open Image (AIHRC)
Member of the Afghan selective Complaints Committee.
On the day of the attack, he hosted a dinner for his Afghan and Australian family at IHG.
He showed them \"a new life in Kabul\" where you can enjoy a calm dinner with live music and delicious food.
\"But as soon as they started eating dessert, a few foreigners jumped in and shot at random,\" Fahim told SBS . \".
Part of the shock of the attack was that no one would hear gunfire in the safest and most luxurious places in Kabul.
The gunshots were getting bigger and bigger, and soon they realized there was a gunman in the restaurant who shot people.
\"It\'s chaotic and nobody knows what to do,\" Hakim said . \".
\"I think it is planned;
They tried to target international guests at the hotel at the time.
\"They shot at all the guests there.
\"I don\'t know how many suicide bombers there are, but I saw about five people there --
Young people aged 23 and 25
Well equipped old machine gun.
Harkin said he realized that his son was also injured.
\"At the same time, my son committed suicide in front of my sister --in-
The daughter of the law protects her and him [the attacker]
\"Shoot me,\" said Harkin.
\"I fell to the ground and heard my son say, \'Father, I got a bullet in my leg.
\"I asked him, \'Can you move your legs, can you move? \'\" he told the Taliban attackers that his family was Afghan and Muslim, they paused for a moment and thought as if they had thought twice.
There was an explosion at the time and the Taliban became the target of shooting from the hotel lobby, so they had to shift their attention to themselvesdefense.
The building darkened after the explosion.
Hakim and his family began to call each other\'s names to check everyone.
They tried to stand up but said it was very difficult when they stepped on the body.
The family used chaos and darkness to escape, hiding in a room near the restaurant, where they hid for more than two and a half hours and were rescued.
Both Hakim\'s son and Hakim were shot and bled.
Afghan special forces eventually rescued the trapped families.
When the special forces arrived, Hakim\'s son told him that they were government soldiers and butHakim was not sure because they could not see it and told the family to remain silent unless they were absolutely sure they were progovernment.
The son of Hakim confirmed this, saying: \"Look, these uniforms are the special forces of the government.
Then he shouted, \"We are a family. we are injured. please save us and save us . \"
\"The special forces turned around and asked everyone to raise their hands and turn on the lights.
When they confirmed that it was a family with two injured men, they instructed them to remain silent and follow in their footsteps and guide the family down the stairs.
Once outside the hotel they had to run to the back of the tank in front of the hotel until they were taken to the hospital.
Asked about his feelings and thoughts during the attack
\"I may not be able to describe that moment,\" said Hashem;
You can smell the smoke of the gun, the heat of the gun, and the excitement of the shooter trying to shoot everyone.
This is a very terrible moment \".
Harkin said he thought the attacker was a professional killer.
\"Nightmares, aftershocks, post-trauma, these are very worrying,\" he said . \".
Harkin said, after some worry
Trauma Stress Disorder
\"I have contacted doctors, psychologists who have advised us to attend as many meetings and conversations as possible to get rid of all these nightmares and scenes we recall.
\"From the facial expressions and body language of my wife and children, it is clear that the shock is there and the nightmare is there.
\"SBS Pashto also spoke to Nadia Hawaja, Fahim hakim\'s sister --in-
One day she returned to Australia with her 20-year-old daughter Falia and 19-year-old Ariana.
The three women celebrated Falia\'s wedding in Kabul.
Nadia and her family, the mother of five children, have lived in Australia for more than 20 years and all of her children are born in Australia.
Nadiya and SBS shared her original memory: \"We are all hiding under the table;
Then the gunmen shouted and asked who was Afghan and who was a foreigner and someone came out of us and said we were Afghan and we were Muslim.
Nadia recalled the moment the gunman asked her where her headscarf was.
\"The gunman pointed a gun at me and asked me, \'Where is your scarf, \'\" she said \'. \".
\"I told him I lost it and immediately looked at my back --
Someone left a leather jacket and I put it on my head and asked the gunman \"please don\'t kill me \".
Nadia Khwaja would like to draw the attention of the international community to what is happening in her homeland: \"Please help Afghanistan and not return those who have left Afghanistan and seek asylum in other countries, they leave because of a problem and their lives are in danger.