My father was a freedom fighter against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. When I was 3, he sent my mother and us kids to Pakistan to give us a better life. As a result, I grew up in Pakistan, but visited my father in Afghanistan every few months. In that time, he became a prominent leader in the northern belt of Afghanistan. But when I was 14 he was killed, along with 20 of his companions, on his way back from peace talks with the Afghan Northern Alliance. After that, we couldn’t go back to Afghanistan.
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