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Kabul Dispatch: She’s a Force of Nature, and She Just Declared War on Peace With the Taliban

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019ROD NORDLANDComments Off

Laila Haidari’s popular Kabul restaurant, where men and women dine freely together, finances her drug treatment center. Now she has a new cause: fighting a peace deal with the Taliban.