Politics and society

Question 1

“In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara,

Answer 1

I was Sunni and he was Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that.”

Question 2

“You couldn’t trust anyone in Kabul anymore –

Answer 2

for a fee or under threat, people told on each other, neighbor on neighbor, child on parent, brother on brother, servant on master, friend on friend.”

Question 3

“A few weeks later, the Taliban banned kite fighting.

Answer 3

And two years later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif.”

Question 4

“That’s the real Afghanistan, Agha sahib.

Answer 4

That’s the Afghanistan I know. You? You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.”