Muhammad Sajjad/APA Taliban fighter stands guard near a border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the Khyber district on August 21. The porch doubles as office and bedroom, which is convenient because since becoming the Taliban’s point person sorting problems and authorizing visiting journalists at the border with Pakistan, Supranullah — who like many rural Afghans uses just one name — has been slammed. He has a three-mile back up of heavily laden trucks waiting to leave Afghanistan at the Torkham border crossing. When we entered into his world, he was scribbling…
Inside a surreal journey from the Pakistani border to Taliban-controlled Kabul
