This happened as recent as April 2020 where the Taliban decided and lashed out 40 lashes at a helpless woman whose crime is only talking to a young man on the phone. And suddenly some like Hadi Awang decided that the Taliban have changed for the better. Image source: The Observers.
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Let me break it up into several “parts” the story of my travel from Malaysia to Kabul (my 2nd home for this year) – too tired to write in full (Image Source: Politico Magazine):-
Part 1 – From KLIA to Dubai
Part 2 – From Dubai to Kabul
Part 3 – Arrival in Kabul
The journey from KLIA to Dubai…
Read More »Overseas Assignment 2007: KL to Dubai to Kabul, The Hectic Journey – Part 1
This is what was going in my mind now as I am sitting in my office on a Saturday night, pondering over an issue that my colleague in Kabul have just sent me over the email. Image source: Politico Magazine
The matter was not on the issue but more disturbing was another email – from the client’s CEO to my big boss requesting me to be assigned to Kabul to help out on the system. Flattering I must say that the client’s CEO added the word “competent staff” but as much as I wanted to go, there are other factors running through my mine now.
Read More »Overseas Assignment 2007: Flying into Dangerous Kabul Again?
(Day 40 in Kabul)
In case you are wondering how a street in Kabul looks like on a Friday afternoon….I took this after our lunch at an Indian restaurant
One of the key things that we often ignore is the level of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in our bottled mineral water and probably this is why sometimes normal boiled drinking water is safer to drink. Image Source: The Take Out
Read More »Overseas Assignment 2007: TDS: Total Dissolved Solids in Kabul (Day 15)