‘The Taliban no longer wanted to kill me. Now they wanted to marry me’

Last August, one Afghan reporter told how her life imploded when the militants took power. One year on, she tells of desperate months trying to evade capture and flee the country

The day the Taliban entered my city last August, I started to receive renewed threats from Taliban commanders who wanted to punish me for my work as a news journalist. I was forced to leave my home that day, amid the loud explosions of an ongoing battle, hiding under a burqa, and praying to survive the journey.

What I did not know then was that this journey would continue for the next year.

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