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  IMAGE SOURCE, MOHAMMAD EDRIS MOMAND Image caption, Mohammad Edris Momand is still flying sorties in the skies above Afghanistan - these days for the Taliban "Some people may not be happy with me - but I tell them the country is like a mother and no one should betray it," says Mohammad Edris Momand. He is among a small number of handpicked Afghan military pilots trained by the United States to defend his country in the years before it fell to the Taliban. But when the Islamist fighters were poised to retake Kabul last year, he turned his back on his allies and flew to hand his helicopter to his former enemies. He's thought to be the only pilot in the former Afghan military to have done so. "My aim was to protect an asset that belongs to Afghanistan," he told the BBC. IMAGE SOURCE, MOHAMMAD EDRIS MOMAND Image caption, Momand was among a select group of pilots trained by the US Momand joined the Afghan military in 2009 and left for the US to undergo a strenuous f...

  Image caption, Nowshera has been devastated by recent floods The mammoth, unrelenting rains in Pakistan have destroyed homes and belongings, affecting tens of millions and leaving more than 1,000 people dead. Two BBC correspondents, on the ground in the north and south of the country relay the devastation they're seeing. Nowshera, northern Pakistan Secunder Kermani Wading through the flood-ravaged streets of the suburbs of the northern town of Nowshera, residents are beginning to try and return to their homes to inspect the damage and see what they can salvage. Some used black rubber tubes to help float along the muddy brown water, which at times reached up to their chests, others stepped gingerly through it. Image caption, Residents making their way through the flooded market street in Nowshera Imadullah, a chef, with his young son perched above his shoulders, had just managed to reach his family home. All their belongings were piled up, covered in mud and largely unusable. ...