one day insurgent militants from the Taliban movement captured and brutally murdered one of Haqyar’s colleagues. Terrified that he’d be next, Haqyar and his wife quickly found a buyer for their house, selling it in two days for a quarter of what they’d paid for it. They packed up their things, including several of Haqyar’s German-language textbooks, which they’d need when they arrived in Germany, rounded up their four children, and left. They traveled over the mountains into Pakistan, then into Iran. There hadn’t been any time to obtain official documents.
