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Thursday, August 26, 2021

‘Everyone is afraid’: Afghans fleeing Taliban push for exit into Pakistan

Thousands of people are queueing daily in dust and chaos at Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing in hope of escape

His journey across the border had been torturous, a five-hour ordeal in a crush of thousands of people to walk just a few metres over the crossing between Spin Boldak in Afghanistan and Chaman in Pakistan.

As Sherab Khan, 24, from Qarghayi district in Laghman province finally made it across, he let out an exhausted breath of relief. “Everyone wants to leave the hell behind,” said Khan. “Yes, this is what we call Afghanistan now: a hell.”

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3DpICfS

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