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Photographer Omer Khan, who loves to shoot life, on his lucky escape from Afghanistan 

Photographer Omer Khan, who loves to shoot life, on his lucky escape from Afghanistan 

by Vikram Sharma | Sep 13, 2021

(September 13, 2021) On August 24, when the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III took off from the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul and vanished in the sky after heading west, photographer Omer Farooq Faizi – one of the passengers on board the US aircraft – heaved a...

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