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He is now all set to be commissioned into the Afghan National Army Along with Wahizada, 48 other Afghan cadets also graduated from IMA during the passing out parade on Saturday. Similarly, 15 cadets from Bhutan, five from Maldives and Tajikistan, and two each from Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Nepal graduated at the 143rd Passing-out Parade. DEHRADUN: At 16, Romal Wahizada from Jalalabad in Afghanistan was like any other boy of his age – spirited and cheerful – and hardly cared about the simmering tension between the government forces and the Taliban. That is what gives me courage to fight the battle against the Taliban. It was a pleasant summer morning when the Taliban insurgents attacked their town and beheaded over a dozen people, including his close relatives.“The attack was a show of strength by the militants,” recalls Wahizada, who still gets goosebumps while narrating the incident..