‘Everybody is leaving Afghanistan’: Refugees flee increasing violence
HORGOS, Serbia — Six months ago, Ajmal Sherzad was an IT specialist making $400 a month as a computer repairman in Kabul’s trendy Shar-i-now district. His shop was in one of Kabul’s newer business centers, and from its window, he could look out and see how the Afghan capital was changing.
What he saw wasn’t encouraging.
In the last year, Afghanistan’s capital has seen an increase in bombings and other attacks by the Taliban. With more than 5,000 civilian casualties so far, 2015 may be Afghanistan’s most violent year since the war started in 2001. This week Afghan and U.S. forces battled the Taliban for control over Kunduz, a key northern Afghan city. The intense fighting added to Afghans’ fears that the country’s security situation is continuing on a rapid decline.
Afghanistan elected a new government last year, but stability has yet arrive, either economically or politically. Corruption is rife, and jobs are few and far between.
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