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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Hiding from the Taliban

RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit reversed the immigration board’s determination that a Pakistani businessman who sells supplies to U.S. servicemembers in Afghanistan could live in Pakistan without fear of reprisal from the Taliban. Just because he survived several weeks in Islamabad, never leaving his house, before seeking asylum in the U.S., does not rebut the presumption that the Taliban imperils his life.

Read the ruling here.

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