“And two in Pakistan, in Peshawar. That's where my warehouse is as well. So I travel a lot, back and forth.”
“Which, these days—he shook his head and chuckled tiredly “—let's just say that it's an adventure.”
“I was in Peshawar recently, on business, taking orders, going over inventory, that sort of thing.”
“Also to visit my family. We have three daughters, alhamdulellah.”
I moved them and my wife to Peshawar after the Mujahideen began going at each other's throats.
I won't have their names added to the shaheed list. Nor mine, to be honest. I'll be joining them there very soon, inshallah.”
Anyway, I was supposed to be back in Kabul the Wednesday before last. But, as luck would have it, I came down with an illness.”
I won't bother you with it, hamshira, suffice it to say that when I went to do my private business,
the simpler of the two, it felt like passing chunks of broken glass.”
“I wouldn't wish it on Hekmatyar himself. My wife, Nadia jan, Allah bless her, she begged me to see a doctor.”
But I thought I'd beat it with aspirin and a lot of water. Nadia jan insisted and I said no, back and forth we went.
You know the saying: A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver. This time, I'm afraid, the ass won. That would be me.”
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