41-year-old Mohammed Nazeer Paktyawal, an Afghan father who worked with the US force in Afghanistan in 2021, died in ICE custody within a day after being arrested in North Texas. Paktyawal had been living in Texas since 2021 as his asylum application remained pending with the administration. He started working at an Afghan bakery in the Dallas area. According to reports, he was detained around 7 am on March 13 outside his apartment when he was going to drop his children off at school.
Paktyawal contacted his family from detention and informed them that he was not feeling well. At 11.45 pm, he was admitted to a hospital. The next morning, the relatives were told he was under treatment, but by noon on March 14, they were informed that Paktyawal had died. He has a wife and six children, one of the children in a US citizen.
