Brother recalls texts from doomed Afghan journalist

The young Afghan journalist's text messages to his elder brother were frantic at first, then eerily calm. "Death is approaching," he tapped into his mobile phone. "I am hiding." And then, 20 minutes later: "If I die, pray for me." Ahmad Omaid Khpalwak, 24 years old and the married father of an ...

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