Afghanistan pullout: The rich can leave, we have no choice but to stay
The horrific bombing of a Kabul girls’ school highlights just how tenuous the gains of the past 20 years are as foreign forces start withdrawing from Afghanistan for certain.
On February 29 last year, a group of men crowded around a television in an electronics shop in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, the deadliest for foreign soldiers in the US-led war in Afghanistan.
The men, including my friend and journalist Aliyas Dayee, with whom I had worked in Helmand for several years since moving to Afghanistan in 2013, were watching a live broadcast of the signing of an agreement between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar.
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