Taliban when they came to his house in Kabul, asking for his daughters.He tried to bluff them, claiming he had no children. But the Taliban saw all the shoes by the door.
They accused him of lying and attacked him, he said.After they left, the family fled for the Pakistan border.The cramped apartment Ishaq now shares with other poor families in the Pakistani capital has become a makeshift refugee camp for Afghans.All are ethnic Hazaras, who make up almost a tenth of Afghanistan’s population but are a persecuted minority.
At an Islamabad hotel, Afghans who worked for Canada’s military await a new life The return of the Taliban to power in August has stoked fears among Hazaras, who have long been mistreated for their ethnicity and Shia.