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The Globe and Mail has posted Behind the Veil: An Intimate Journey Into the Lives of Kandahar’s Women, an outstanding multi-part interactive series by photojournalist Paula Lerner and reporter Jessica Leeder chronicling the lives of women in Kandahar, one of Afghanistan’s most conservative, volatile cities.

Part 4: The perils of employment - ‘I know that danger is with me’

Shukufa is a passionate civil servant in one of the city’s most dangerous jobs — she’s one of the women from Kandahar interviewed for the Globe and Mail’s six-part “Behind The Veil” series.

Photo credit: Paula Lerner.