Asad Aryubwal and his family fled Afghanistan three times by the time he was 40, the fourth was because of me

In part of her book shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, CBC Radio host Carol Off writes about how she met Asad Aryubwal, whom she would later try to bring to Canada after he was put in danger for speaking to her about an Afghan warlord’s crimes.

Carol Off is the host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens and the author of All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others, chronicling her journey trying to help a source endangered in Afghanistan. Photograph courtesy of the Writers' Trust

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BY CAROL OFF

April 25, 2018

By the time Asad was in his 40th year, he had been compelled to leave his country three times. The first was to escape being drafted into the Soviet-led Afghan army. The second was to elude the wrath of the Taliban after it invaded Mazar-e-Sharif. The third was to protect his family from ...

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