There is just enough to yoke Afghanistan and Haiti together

One of the best cartoons on the subject and it’s from a Pakistani outlet

It is hard to think the chaos and pain engulfing two countries where I have spent a combined period of roughly four years.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are on the verge of a complete takeover of the country and friends and former colleagues in the country are on planes trying to leave, even as the evacuation of the US embassy Kabul is under active consideration.

In Haiti (or at least the southwestern part of it), a massive earthquake occurred along the same fault line as in 2010, flattening buildings, killing more than 300 and leaving at least 1,800 injured. “Are you ok?” I WhatsApp-ed a friend in Port au Prince as soon as I heard the news, knowing in my heart that he would, thank god, be fine, but would be grieving for people in Les Cayes, Jeremie and so on. Haitians would be traumatised, all over again.

The strange thing about the way Afghanistan is falling into Taliban hands and parts of Haiti are falling to the gr…