The 24-year-old managed to escape: Tamana only knows the Taliban from her parents' horror stories. Then the Islamists storm Kabul

When the Taliban come to Kabul, Tamana doesn’t know where to go. While the extremists penetrate every corner of the Afghan capital, storm the presidential palace and seize power, the young art student walks like everyone else. On the street in front of their student residence, people are running in panic, just wanting to get away from what’s coming. “We students were only told: ‘You have to leave immediately, they are in the city!'” she recalls.

Almost a year later she did it. Tamana is one of more than two million people who have managed to escape from a country that has failed the world. A week after her arrival in Pakistan, the 24-year-old tells her story to the star.

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