Tuesday 4 March 2014

Precarious future for Afghan base workers

Precarious future for Afghan base workers - Features - Al Jazeera English:
"Originally from Ghazni province, Mohammad moved his family to the capital, Kabul, after receiving a series of phone calls threatening to kill them, and hearing from a neighbour that the Taliban had come around asking about him by name.
We don't tell anyone in Ghazni we work here... We leave each morning very early and go home late so our neighbours don't see where we go.
When he makes the rare trip to Kabul to visit his family, he first calls a local driver he trusts to take him into Ghazni city. He is dropped off at a hotel where he has tea and then leaves out the back entrance, finds a new taxi, and has it circle the city randomly for a while to lose anyone following him before heading to the highway.
On the dangerous highway, he said he hopes not to be recognised at a Taliban checkpoint."


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