Sadiq was the family‘s main breadwinner. His income as the owner of the only food stand in the village of Gardda Zarrai, in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, provided for his parents and four siblings.

Nobody knows why he was targeted in a drone strike. But since 2001, US drone attacks have become a near regular feature of life – and cause of death – in Afghanistan, particularly in the country‘s south and east.