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By Joe Stenson with Qubad Wali in Kabul Islamabad (AFP) – After working for years alongside the United States to combat the Taliban in Afghanistan, Zahra says she was just days from being evacuated to America when President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions. She sold her belongings as she awaited a flight out of Pakistan, where she has been embroiled in a three-year process applying for a refugee scheme Trump froze in one of his first acts back in office. “We stood with them for the past 20 years, all I want is for them to stand up for the promise they made,” the 27-year-old former Afg…