‘It’s Afghanistan, you will be killed anyway!’

Traveling in Afghanistan is not just a security problem, reckless driving is another grave problem. In a war-torn country like Afghanistan, everyone is a war veteran. two children happily ing lathat they wfickings, The drivers in Afghanistan are even more than veterans. They do not care about what happens, they just put their gears in the highest speed.

You will see scenes of accidents everywhere traveling, particularly, on Kabul-Jalalabad-Torkham road. The other day we were going to Jalalabad and when we told the driver that we wanted him to drive carefully. He laughed and said: ‘You are afraid of an accident! It’s Afghanistan, you will be killed anyway. In an accident, or a suicide attack, or a bombardment, or a roadside explosion, or an ambush, or…’ his list was long, and, unfortunately, true. When he saw the below pictured car near Sarobi, which had struck the side wall of the road and jumped into the river, he sarcastically repeated: ‘It’s Afghanistan…’

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