As a foreign refuge closes in Kabul, local mosques are at risk, too - washingtonpost

When I read in the paper last week that the United Nations guesthouse in Kabul would soon be closing its doors forever, I felt a twinge of regret and nostalgia for a time and place that would never come again, where a foreign do-gooder or a journalist like me could find refuge from a conflicted, alien environment in a familiar oasis of hot showers, cold beer and the reassuring drone of a BBC newscast. ..... - In a war zone, two refuges under fire : Kabul's U.N. guest house closes, and Pakistan's Sufi...

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