A year ago, during an unprecedented ceasefire, Afghan forces and the Taliban put down their weapons to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid. As talks over the country's future continue, do those who came together feel any closer to a lasting peace?
For three days in June 2018, men long dedicated to killing each other hugged and posed together for selfies.
Those scenes helped kick-start a peace process that has made significant progress.
Hayatullah Hayat, then governor of Nangarhar province, was among those who met the insurgents.
He led a joint procession of government and Taliban members through the eastern city of Jalalabad – the red, green and black national flag, along with the white banner of the insurgents, fluttering above them.
“I hosted 230 Taliban, and none of them were searched when they entered my palace,” he tells me proudly.
Mr Hayat has survived a number of ambushes by the Taliban, and says he has lost more than 50 close colleagues to the conflict in the past few years.
He admits that he was initially…
