Stopped and searched

Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan

Armed Taliban soldier in Mazar-e-Sharif

Mazar-e-Sharif did not feel like the Afghanistan in the news. Were we missing the truth? The road move to the city was peaceful. We’d met the lady too scared to leave the house. But on the whole we felt fine and safe. A white crew of journalists. I was brown with a beard but mostly the crew was white. The Taliban w…