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Afghan VP Dostum arrives in Kabul after more than year in exile: AFP

KABUL, July 22, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum returned to Kabul to a hero’s welcome on Sunday, more than a year after fleeing the country during a probe into the rape and torture of a political rival.

Scores of senior government officials and supporters gathered at the Afghan capital’s airport to greet the powerful ethnic Uzbek leader and former warlord.

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