Afghan police commander held captive, returns to fight insurgents

[The Patriot]

In the late 1990s when the Taliban seized Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, the country was plagued with territorial and religious micro wars. The nationalists of Afghanistan, led by General Ahmad Shah Massoud, stood up against their extremist opposition to take back their country. One native of Baghlan province fought along-side his countrymen and was captured, but unlike most who fell into the hands of the Taliban, he lived to tell the story.

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