Warda Shazadi Meighen – Afghans yearning to come to Canada are spending sad and fearful days in Albania, waiting on a plane or an email from our government
HENGJIN, ALBANIA—Every couple of weeks, more of Hilai Barakzai’s neighbours pack up and leave to new homes around the world, while she waits, watches her email and wonders when it will be her turn. Barakzai got onto one of the last desperate flights out of Kabul as the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021. She flew to Pakistan, then ...