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| New Lives in the City: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul | |
| 2023-02-05 | |
...Arabic for students... fighters have moved to Afghanistan’s cities since the movement’s capture of power, many of them for the first time in their lifetime. These fighters, many of whom are from villages, had lived modest lives, entirely focused on the war. Their circumstances have changed entirely since the Taliban’s victory. Guest author Sabawoon Samim has interviewed five members of the Taliban who have come to live in Kabul, a city they had seen as being at the heart of the ’foreign occupation’ with its ’puppet government’ with a population degraded by Western ways. How have they found the actual Kabul and its people, and what do they think about having to earn a living, keep office hours and live in a city full of traffic and millions of other inhabitants? In the aftermath of seizing power in Afghanistan in August 2021, a huge number of Taliban foot soldiers rushed to the country’s capital, Kabul. For many, born into rural families and with their adult lives spent primarily on the battlefield, it was the first time they had come to the capital. They had not even been born or were still children when the Taliban’s first emirate fell. Even their seniors, who had experienced life in a major city like Kabul, would find the Afghan capital of 2021 a very different place to when the Taliban had last ruled there — the ruins left by the civil war had long ago been re-built, the city itself had become vastly bigger and the population increased manifold. Some of those newcomers to Kabul have settled in the city and we wanted to find out how they had experienced this sudden shift and what they thought of Kabul — and Kabulis. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I like the tidbit of the mujahideen having to adjust to showing up at the office or getting his pay docked. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-02-05 07:59 |