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Meeting with the Taliban

My life in Afghanistan

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

My first meeting with the Taliban was reassuring. Their commander of Ghazni said, ‘you can trust me today, I’m not going to kill you,’ as he put his two handguns on the windowsill of his safehouse. I replied, ‘we have something in common, the Governor Osmani wants to kill us both’.

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