Some of the military pilots who fled Afghanistan the day the government collapsed are now in the United Arab Emirates.
They are part of a group of ex-Afghan air force members who were held at camps in Uzbekistan, where they landed on Aug. 15, the day the Taliban marched into Kabul.
The fate of a separate group of military fliers in Tajikistan — who appealed for asylum in Canada in an interview with CBC News at the end of August — remains unclear.
One of the pilots now in Tajikistan, who spoke CBC News via WhatsApp today, said they have not heard about






