Originally Posted by
worldtraveller73
I think if you pre-arrange a discreet car transfer and take appropriate security precautions you're going to be ahead of just turning up at the airport blind.
Millions travel in and out of bad countries and this is no where near the levels of Somalia or Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is relatively fine in parts for a prepared tourist, better than even Iraq. Far worse places include Somalia, Syria, but also some non-tourist places in Africa (drc springs to mind), and several Mexican drug towns.
There's dodgy areas too, I would NOT drive Kabul to Islamabad over the khyber pass.