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   From: samhsloan@gmail.com   
      
   Thank you for this article but it contains a few errors.   
   I visited Nuristan twice, in 1977 and 1978, but these visits were   
   brief as I only spent one night there each time as it was illegal to   
   visit Nuristan without permission. In 1978 I wound up in jail in   
   Afghanistan, escaped, was recaptured and finally released across the   
   border to Torkham Pakistan. I then went to Chitral where I met some of   
   the same Nuristanis I had met in Nuristan but who by then were   
   refugees as the War in Afghanistan had started.   
   When I returned to the USA I met Khalil Nuristani who was then living   
   on 116th Street across the street from Columbia University. He bought   
   a camera and gave it to me to take to Shah Wali on my next visit to   
   Chitral. I went to Chitral and met Shah Wali and gave him the camera.   
   He then told me that two of Khalil Nuristani's daughters had been   
   killed when the Russians bombed Nuristan but the other two daughters   
   had survived. However, he told me not to tell Khalil Nuristani that   
   two of his daughters were dead as it would be too upsetting to him.   
   Nevertheless, when I returned to New York City I told Khalil Nuristani   
   that two of his daughters were dead and gave him the names as given me   
   by Shah Wali. I felt I had no right to withhold that information from   
   him.   
   It is apparently true that not long thereafter he returned to   
   Pakistan. This was a mistake because had he stayed in New York a bit   
   longer he might have gotten a green card as a refugee. I saw him again   
   when I visited Chitral in 1983. By then he was living in a house just   
   outside the Royal Palace in Chitral, given to him by the ruler of   
   Chitral. He was recognized as the chief of the tribe and was issuing   
   passes to allow the Nuristanis permission to cross the border into   
   Afghanistan. Sam Sloan   
      
   http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/a-long-lost-window-int   
   -afghan-history/   
      
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