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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
On 15 August 2021 during a family visit, a diplomat from Afghanistan landed in the capital of a European country with his family. Without knowing anything about the situation in Afghanistan,he was asked to apply for asylum at the immigration control at the airport. “Because the republic he represented does not exist anymore,” recalled the diplomat. Unsure what to do, he reluctantly agreed. From that fateful day onward, as the Taliban embarked on tightening their hold over the country, suppressing any dissenting voice, many countries involved in Afghanistan in the past two decades stepped up to…