DRAWING on OBSERVATIONS

Ball point pen on today’s newsprint

US pledges to continue it’s money for peace program as Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai announces the Afghan government has been talking with the Taliban. The insurgents however deny any talks.

Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, David Rohde was abducted and held captive by the Taliban for seven months. The Times did not report on the incident before now, believing it would place him in greater jeopardy. After weeks of planning, Rohde and Afghan journalist Ludin succeeding in tiring their captives with a board game before scaling down a wall with a rope they had kept hidden from their captives.