[Toronto Star]Nearly 10 years ago, the Star helped a teenager escape the Taliban. When militants took back Afghanistan, it was her turn to save her family
Roya Shams ran fast, then faster when she spotted the tiny woman, delicate as a sparrow, in a wheelchair at Pearson airport’s arrivals level.She dropped to her knees and, for the first time in nearly 10 years, fell into her mother’s embrace.“Don’t cry!” Roya said. “It’s all good.”But her ...