At Pakistan border, Afghans find a way out of Taliban rule after a treacherous journey. “Girls were not allowed to go to school. There was no place for girls to get an education,” said one Afghan teenager fleeing across the border.
Mursal and Manisha, two teenage sisters from Kandahar, Afghanistan, smiled with relief after they got through to Pakistan earlier this week.
The fighters checked to see if people had the correct paperwork, like valid passports and visas, and then passed them along to the Pakistani officials for the final hurdle to freedom. The girls, who declined to provide their last names as they rushed to a waiting taxi, said they felt compelled to leave their country because there was no future for them there.
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