Our man in Kabul
: Ben Hammersley, blogging correspondent, has made it into Afghanistan. He ended up flying in, rather than trekking over the Khyber Pass:
Two days in Dubai, then, instead of the Islamabad-Peshawar-Jalalabad-Kabul route of legend. In many ways I’m relieved. I’ve been to Peshawar before, two months before 9/11, and it was dodgy then. In a choice between dubious airline and a roadtrip where the Pakistani authorities insist that you take a gunman with you to the border, and I guess it’s more calming to take the plane. Of course, the incessant worries about the wings dropping off and suchlike are still there – it’s the *Afghan* national airline, after all…
