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Zubair has only one thing in mind.
Leave Pakistan.
As quickly as possible.
This Afghan journalist in his twenties, who fled Kabul after the victory of the Taliban, has just obtained asylum in France.
He squeezes his plane ticket between his hands.
His flight takes off tomorrow morning.
At his side, his sister and his brother are consumed by anguish.
They don't have a visa for Pakistan or elsewhere.
They were secretly stranded in a small apartment that looked like a rabbit cage in the suburb of Rawalpindi, near the capital, after escaping a police dragnet in Quetta, in the west of the country.
“We were staying in a building surrounded by soldiers and police from the fallen regime.
When the police landed, they were all arrested and handed over to the Taliban,”
says Zubair.
A former army prosecutor experienced the same incident in Quetta.
“I was staying in the Hazara Town neighborhood when the police arrested me.
The police interrogated us for five days…
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