“It was fear, it was helplessness, it was anger,” said a 21-year-old who fled her hometown this week
, which was updated Tuesday, showed that 233 districts were under Taliban control, 65 under government control and 109 contested.Khaleda Yolchi, 23, said her father also ordered her to leave her hometown of Maymana in northern Afghanistan this week as he was afraid the militants might take her. In the last seven days, she also got engaged to be married to protect her from being taken by a Taliban fighter.
to Kabul on Thursday. He had planned to carry a fake student ID on his way to the airport, to disguise the fact he works for a foreign government.“It’s beyond my ability to imagine myself in a city that will one day be in the hands of the Taliban,” he said.Abdullah Yarmand, 36, who says he worked for Norwegian troops between 2007 and 2009, is stuck in Maymana city.
With three children in tow, he says he feels trapped. He is an ethnic Hazara, a mostly Shiite minority that has been singled out for persecution by the Taliban in the past.At a makeshift camp in a dusty Kabul park, Afghans who had fled Kunduz province slept out in the open, others sheltered under bits of cloth strung up between trees. Many came with only the clothes on their backs. On Sunday, the province’s capital fell to the Taliban.
His family is currently living in the capital where he is jobless and paying $200 in rent. He has started smoking two packs a day.
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