Karen Woo: selfless doctor gunned down in Afghanistan's badlands

Nuristan may be separated from the Kabul Health Club by less than a hundred miles, but they might as well be on different planets.

The club is a plush gym in the Afghan capital which charges $2,000 a year to the foreigners and elite Afghans who can afford it. It was on the club's manicured lawn that dozens of well-wishers gathered on 8 July to help raise money for an 11-man team of medical workers to visit the miserably poor valleys of Nuristan, one of Afghanistan's most remote, beautiful and dangerous provinces.... - Karen Woo: selfless doctor gunned down

Afghanistan war: Deadly ambush of medical mission roils one of safest provinces