...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
’s control of Afghanistan in August, 23-year-old Ramazan Ali took his father’s savings and fled the country in a bid to reach Europe, alongside hundreds of thousands of similarly desperate Afghans. His attempt failed, and he is stuck in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....with little hope for his future.