My Homeland: song becomes poignant anthem for fleeing Afghans

Song written in 1998 by singer who left Afghanistan during the civil war has taken on new significance

As yet another generation of Afghans fled their homeland over the past fortnight, one song has resonated as a poignant anthem for the exodus.

My Homeland - Sarzamin i Man in Farsi - was written in 1998 by the singer Dawood Sarkhosh, who himself had to leave Afghanistan in the civil war that erupted following the Soviet withdrawal.