Hundreds queue for passports in bid to leave Afghanistan

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KABUL: Hundreds of people braved sub-zero temperatures in Afghanistan's capital to queue outside the passport office early Sunday (Dec 19), a day after the Taliban government announced it would resume is

Many began their wait the previous night and most stood patiently in single file - some desperate to leave the country for medical treatment, others to escape the Islamists' renewed rule.

The local branch of the Islamic State group, the Taliban's principal enemy, killed more than 150 people in late August when citizens massed at Kabul airport in a desperate bid to leave during the early days of the new regime. Mohammed Osman Akbari, 60, said he was urgently trying to reach Pakistan, because dilapidated hospitals at home were unable to complete his heart surgery.

But the office said Saturday that the issue has been resolved and those whose applications were already in process can now get their documents."The situation here is not peaceful," she told AFP, hugging her two-year-old daughter Bibi Hawa close for dual relief against the biting cold.Her husband is in Iran because he could not find work here, she added, before expressing concern about skyrocketing prices and a lack of jobs and education for women and girls.

 

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