For mother-of-four Nasima, the prospect of lasting peace in Afghanistan is almos...
KABUL - For mother-of-four Nasima, the prospect of lasting peace in Afghanistan is almost too good to be true.
Afghanistan has been at war for decades. The Soviet invasion dominated the 1980s, civil war followed, the hardline Islamist Taliban movement held sway for a few years before being ousted in a U.S.-led assault, followed by 18 more years of conflict. The weekend agreement in Doha on an American troop withdrawal is connected to a wider push for reconciliation between the Taliban and the Afghan government, although major obstacles to lasting peace remain.HORROR IN ATTACK’S AFTERMATH
At around 8:30 a.m., she heard a loud blast. Such was the intensity of the explosion that it shook the entire city. Sarajuddin ran away from home two years earlier to join the insurgents, and Malik remembered the intense pain he felt when he received word of his son’s death. Habibullah Nazari, an officer in Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security , which has been on the frontline of the fight against the Taliban, was killed in an attack by the militant group.
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