The head of the leading Afghan news channel, TOLONews, announced on Friday that he had left Afghanistan, saying that after months of Taliban rule he “couldn’t continue”. Khpalwak Sapai, a journalist for nearly 17 years, posted on his Twitter page that he had “left Kabul with a heavy heart”. He is the director of TOLONews, a well-respected news organisation that continued to report after the Taliban’s takeover and despite the creeping crackdown on freedom of speech in Afghanistan. “I’ve given decades of my life to protect & advance free press & journalism in Afghanistan, but in the past month, …