Town Talk: Kabul's neurosurgical loss may be Vancouver's gain

AFTER KABUL: Ajmal Zemmer was six years old when he, his father Assadulah and his mother Shakilla left a Kabul café one evening. Minutes later, a rocket killed several patrons. Days later, Ajmal was urging university pharmacy teacher Shakilla that negotiations with a neighbour would make him late for kindergarten, when another rocket demolished a nearby gas station. Then Assadulah ran in, “paler than I had ever seen him,” to say that a third rocket had killed four children and