Afghan women and children wait for processing by authorities in a truck with their belongings upon returning from Pakistan. — ©️2023 The New York Times Company
THE grandfather always feared this day would come.
In the four decades since he fled Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, the man, Najmuddin Torjan, had been living illegally in Pakistan.
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