Rasheed turned off the radio. They were sitting on the living room floor, eating dinner
less than a week after they'd seen Najibullah's corpse hanging by a rope.
They can't make half the population stay home and do nothing,” Laila said. “Why not?” Rasheed said.
For once, Mariam agreed with him. He'd done the same to her and Laila, in effect, had he not? Surely Laila saw that.
Rasheed grinned.This isn't some village. This is Kabul. Women here used to practice law and medicine; they held office in the government.”
Spoken like the arrogant daughter of a poetry reading university man that you are. How urbane, how Tajik, of you.”
You think this is some new, radical idea the Taliban are bringing?”
Have you ever lived outside of your precious little shell in Kabul, my gull? Ever cared to visit the real Afghanistan,”
the south, the east, along the tribal border with Pakistan? No? I have.”
And I can tell you that there are many places in this country that have always lived this way, or close enough anyhow. Not that you would know.”
“I refuse to believe it,” Laila said. “They're not serious.”
What the Taliban did to Najibullah looked serious to me,” Rasheed said. “Wouldn't you agree?”
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