A year after the western withdrawal from Afghanistan, meet Ismail, Zulikha and their family who settled in Shropshire after escaping the Taliban Read their story:
A year on from the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, a family of refugees have shared their experience of settling in Shropshire.
Ismail and Zulikha continue to live in a single room with their three children but are relieved to live in safety.The couple's priority is their children's education, something which would have been forbidden in Afghanistan for their daughter. In March, schools there re-opened for a new academic year. But the Taliban reversed an earlier promise and girls are currently not permitted to attend secondary school."For the future I just need to be safe and for my children to go to school," Ismail said.
He added his 12-year-old was "happy at school" after she started last September, and teachers loved her and his nine-year-old son. He said: "We're excited here because our kids are going to school, our daughter is going to school, and she's safe.
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