OXFORD, England — Five days after the Taliban captured Kabul, Summia Tora began to fear that her father would never get out of Afghanistan. She had been up almost round-the-clock, working every angle to get him on an evacuation flight. “That’s when it really hit me, and that was the first time I sat down and cried,” recalled Ms. Tora, 24, as she recounted the story last week. He was stuck.”But Ms. Tora’s father had one advantage that thousands of other desperate Afghans did not: His daughter was a Rhodes scholar, the first ever chosen from Afghanistan. In the coming days, Ms. Tora expects to be reunited with her father in southern Europe.

Source: New York Times September 05, 2021 09:00 UTC