Afghanistan: Life in Kabul after the Taliban victory

BBC News

By Malik Mudassir
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The Taliban captured Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Sunday, 20 years after they were ousted from power. So what does it look and feel like the day after its fall?

The Taliban are everywhere, at the checkpoints which used to be official police or army barricades.

There is not much panic in the city today, as there was yesterday. The Taliban are controlling traffic, they are searching cars, and they are especially searching those vehicles which used to belong to police and the army, all of which they have confiscated.

If there are Taliban fighters themselves driving those vehicles now, they are stopped at checkpoints, too. They told us that they checked these vehicles to make sure they were not looters and thieves disguised as Taliban.

Publish : 2021-08-17 12:07:00

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