Contact Admin. This feature contains a picture of Afghan girl Aisha, 4. It was on 7th September last year that an American drone hit the car she was travelling in.
Everyone died — everyone except Aisha. At the same time it is an important image, as it shows a side to the war on terrorism that the US does not want the world to see.
After receiving treatment in a hospital in Kabul, one day she was suddenly missing. Aisha, 4, was used to seeing the American birds soaring above the village. She knew that they were dangerous, her mum and dad had talked about it. Meya Jan is at home on his farm in the village of Gamber when he receives a phone call from the neighbouring village. Meya Jan feels a knot building up in his stomach. Did his sister, Taher, and her husband, Abdul Rashid, make it out in time with their children Aisha, 4, and Jundullah, 1?
They had been in Kabul because Taher had been having pregnancy troubles and should be on their way home. He hopes that they stopped for a break in Asadabad, capital of the Kunar Province on the border to Pakistan.
Instead he starts talking about other people they have treated. Dismembered policemen, children with gunshot wounds from battle crossfire and women who have died in childbirth. He shows us round the hospital telling us about everything they need to be able to provide the best treatment. She came in a couple of weeks ago, in September. A little girl who had lost her face in a drone strike.
