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☆ ‘I’m Starting Again From Zero’: Afghans Pour Out of a Hostile Pakistan
  + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Christina Goldbaum | Safiullah Padshah | Elise Blanchard | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In the four decades since he fled Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, the man, Najmuddin Torjan, had been living illegally in Pakistan. He married there, had children and watched as they had children of their own. All the while, he felt the unease of making a life on borrowed land, seemingly on borrowed time. The Pakistani government abruptly declared that all foreign citizens living in the country without documents must leave by Nov. 1. Now I’m starting again from zero.”
Persons: Najmuddin Torjan, “, ”, Torjan, I’m Locations: Afghanistan, Pakistan
☆ Taliban Prove to Be Formidable Tax Collectors, Putting Squeeze on Afghans
  + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Saeed Shah | Photographs Elise Blanchard For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
KABUL—For decades, most businesses in Kabul’s busy Mandawi market got by without paying their taxes. That changed when the Taliban swept to power. Now every shop is ponying up, said Haji Hafeezullah Ismati, who sells fur hats in the market. For some of them, the added cost has proven untenable. A friend and fellow shopkeeper recently closed his business and now drives a taxi, Mr. Ismati said.
☆ Taliban Leader Faces Blowback Over Girls’ School Ban—From His Own Movement
  + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Saeed Shah | Photographs Elise Blanchard For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
KABUL—A year ago, the Taliban’s supreme leader revived the Taliban’s signature policy from the 1990s and banned girls from attending secondary school. Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is discovering that it is one thing to issue a fiat, and quite another to enforce it in an Afghanistan that has changed dramatically since the Taliban last ruled. The reclusive leader is coming under intense pressure even from within his own movement to reverse it, a clash that is spilling into the open as the new school year begins this week.
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