She was speaking on a phone kept hidden from guards, after Tajik authorities took the Afghans’ identification documents and phones away. BIGGEST TARGETSU.S.-trained, English-speaking Afghan pilots were among the Taliban’s biggest targets during the war. Earlier in September, a U.S.-brokered deal allowed a larger group of Afghan pilots and other military personnel to be flown out of Uzbekistan. Luckily, the pregnant Afghan pilot’s husband – who worked at the U.S.-backed government in Kabul – evacuated with her. She said she feared medical personnel at the sanatorium, located outside Dushanbe, were not qualified to deal with pregnancies.
