Two years after the Taliban captured his hometown of Kabul, Ahmad Muslim Khuram still remembers the scenes of chaos in the Afghan capital.
The former CEO of Bakhtar Afghan Airlines says he was on his way to a meeting on Aug. 15, 2021, when he noticed people frantically running through the streets. Soon after, a group of armed men burst into his office.
“They said, ‘Hand over everything to us,'” said Khuram, who spent the next two weeks trying to escape Afghanistan with his family as bedlam gripped Kabul’s airport.
Shinkai Karokhail, a human rights activist and former Afghan ambassador to Canada, says she was shocked by the speed
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