Afghans Enjoy Peace as Temporary Ceasefire Begins
The people of Afghanistan have taken advantage of the 3-day ceasefire for the three days of Eid and are celebrating the festival by going to different parts of the country to sightsee and have fun with friends and families.
The big cities of the country, especially Kabul, are celebrating the festival during the ceasefire.
“We want to have such a peace forever, like the three days of the ceasefire that we are having,” said Najiba Hussaini, a Kabul resident.
Another resident of Kabul, Mohammad Raqib Fayez, said: “These people are tired! They no longer deserve violent behavior, neither from the government nor from the Taliban.”
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The study room of the Rahila Foundation in Kabul, Afghanistan, named after a promising young student killed by an Islamic State attack.Credit.Kiana Hayeri for The New York Times
Published Feb. 21, 2021Updated March 22, 2021
KABUL, Afghanistan When his soon-to-be fiancée, Najiba Hussaini, was killed in a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Hussain Rezai didn’t know how to grieve for her.
“I had lost my love, but I wasn’t allowed to mourn,” said Mr. Rezai, a 33-year-old government employee. Though they had traveled to Daikundi Province to seek her parents’ approval to marry, they weren’t officially engaged, and he felt pressure to simply move on after her death.