Aid Worker Convoy Heads for Pakistan

Foreign aid workers left Kabul, the capital, in a convoy of vans and four-wheel-drive vehicles after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered them to move to abandoned dormitories or leave the country. The convoy of about 200 aid workers wound its way through Kabul toward the eastern city of Jalalabad, headed for neighboring Pakistan. All the aid workers had left Kabul by evening. The exodus could have a devastating effect on the estimated 750,000 residents of Kabul. The aid groups provided subsidized food, medicine and clothes and were repairing neighborhoods heavily damaged by civil war. Only workers from the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross were exempted from the order and remained.