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By Joel Gunter
image captionWali Yasini lost his mother in a targeted killing, one of hundreds across Afghanistan in the past few months
A year ago this week, the Taliban signed a deal with the United States designed, in theory, to pave the road to peace in Afghanistan. It committed the Taliban to preventing attacks on US forces and the US to withdrawing its remaining troops from the country. It did not commit the Taliban to a ceasefire with respect to Afghanistan s government, or its citizens.
One Sunday morning last month, Qadria Yasini got ready as usual for work. She put on a new coat and woke her son Wali to say that she had left some money for food. Her driver wound through the Kabul neighbourhood on the way to the office, stopping to collect Yasini s friend and fellow Supreme Court judge, Zakia Herawi.
A year of violence on the road to peace
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Afghanistan: A year of violence on the road to peace
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