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  • A year in a medical hospital in Kabul.   (source)
  • There were beheadings and burnings in Syria, a string of simultaneous suicide bombings in Baghdad, a Taliban raid in Kabul, a new round of fighting in Yemen, several stabbings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a gun-and-grenade attack on Western tourists at a beach hotel in Tunisia.   (source)
  • The driver said, "In Kabul I was a doctor.†   (source)
  • "So are your very secret substations in Beijing, Kabul and-forgive my impertinence-Canada's Prince Edward Island, but you don't advertise them," said Krupkin.†   (source)
  • And the train's headed for Kabul.†   (source)
  • Ford, ford, ford o' Kabul river, Ford o' Kabul river in the dark!†   (source)
  • I knew Sharif jan in Kabul, long time ago, before he moved to America.   (source)
  • In Kabul, fighting kites was a little like going to war.   (source)
  • The news had reached Kabul and he had called.   (source)
  • Kabul awoke the next morning to find that the monarchy was a thing of the past.   (source)
  • I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card.   (source)
  • Only a handful of kids in all of Kabul owned a new Stingray and now I was one of them.   (source)
  • I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali. Kabul.   (source)
  • We'd have a great, fancy wedding and invite family and friends from Kabul to Kandahar.   (source)
  • Through the wall, I could hear the scratchy sound of Radio Kabul News.   (source)
  • Kabul against Mazar-i-Sharif, I think, and by the way the players weren't allowed to wear shorts.   (source)
  • IN KABUL, it rarely rained in the summer.   (source)
  • I thought of all the trucks, train sets, and bikes he'd bought me in Kabul.   (source)
  • I was your humble admirer in Kabul and remain so today.   (source)
  • In those days, drinking was fairly common in Kabul.   (source)
  • EVERY WINTER, districts in Kabul held a kite-fighting tournament.   (source)
  • He had come to say good-bye the night Baba and I had fled Kabul.   (source)
  • All day, this poem about Kabul has been bouncing around in my head.†   (source)
  • From either side of the Kabul River, they released rounds of artillery at each other.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, Najibullah changed tactics and tried to portray himself as a devout Muslim.†   (source)
  • We need Kabul to be green again, people say.†   (source)
  • Two days later, there was a large demonstration in Kabul.†   (source)
  • She noticed a drowsy hush overtaking Kabul Traffic became languid, scant, even quiet.†   (source)
  • Babi tried again to convince Mammy to leave Kabul.†   (source)
  • But it isn't mere homesickness or nostalgia that has Laila thinking of Kabul so much these days.†   (source)
  • But, like Mil's letter, Kabul's penance has arrived too late.†   (source)
  • The nikka will be tomorrow morning, and then there is a bus leaving for Kabul at noon.†   (source)
  • Kharabat, Kabul's ancient music ghetto, was silenced.†   (source)
  • At the Kabul River, vendors moved into the parched riverbed.†   (source)
  • Since my return from Kabul, I have managed to sell what little remained of my land.†   (source)
  • It was a hot, dry summer night, typical of the month of Saratan in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Two stores here in Kabul, in Taimani and Shar-e-Nau, though I just sold those.†   (source)
  • Laila tells him that she has been in Pakistan for the last year, that she is returning to Kabul.†   (source)
  • The Kabul River, without its yearly spring floods, had turned bone-dry.†   (source)
  • Kabul was in the hands of the people now, he said proudly.†   (source)
  • He was going to transform Kabul with his designs.†   (source)
  • Kabul was eerily silent, quilted in white, tendrils of smoke snaking up here and there.†   (source)
  • A year ago, she would have gladly given an arm to get out of Kabul.†   (source)
  • I told him I had sold the stores in Kabul and that I was going back to finish up the paperwork.†   (source)
  • Kabul is, and back there so much is happening, a lot of it good.†   (source)
  • Tariq explained to her the treacherous, shifting boundaries within Kabul.†   (source)
  • Kabul's day of reckoning had come at last.†   (source)
  • I understand that Rasheed agha has tickets for the bus to Kabul that leaves shortly.†   (source)
  • Do you know how many people the Mujahideen killed in Kabul alone these last four years?†   (source)
  • Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast.†   (source)
  • ISAF, an international peacekeeping force, has been sent to Kabul.†   (source)
  • Rasheed is here, in Herat; he has come all the way from Kabul.†   (source)
  • "I'll visit you," he muttered "I'll come to Kabul and see you.†   (source)
  • As you know, I came to Kabul a month ago to speak with you.†   (source)
  • The wars in Afghanistan have ravaged the roads connecting Kabul, Herat, and Kandahar.†   (source)
  • In them, she's always back at the house in Kabul, walking the hall, climbing the stairs.†   (source)
  • The following day, Kabul was overrun by trucks.†   (source)
  • Mostly, they live in the richer parts of Kabul.†   (source)
  • When they found neither, when their goats and sheep and cows died off, they came to Kabul.†   (source)
  • By "out there," he didn't mean Kabul, which had always been relatively liberal and progressive.†   (source)
  • And when the rockets began to rain down on Kabul, people ran for cover.†   (source)
  • All over Kabul, electric fans sat idle, almost mockingly so.†   (source)
  • She and her mother and daughter had no one left in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Have you ever lived outside of your precious little shell in Kabul, my gul?†   (source)
  • She was raised in Herat, I was born here in Kabul.†   (source)
  • That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul.†   (source)
  • They were yelling that Massoud and Rabbani had withdrawn from Kabul.†   (source)
  • Because we both knew that in Afghanistan, and particularly in Kabul, such absurdity was commonplace.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, I have such fond memories of Kabul.†   (source)
  • He'd been quiet since we had fled Kabul.†   (source)
  • I take Sohrab around Kabul sometimes and buy him candy.†   (source)
  • In the morning, Hassan told me he and Farzana had decided to move to Kabul with me.†   (source)
  • Just north of us was the bone-dry Kabul River.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Kabul scored a goal and the man next to me cheered loudly.†   (source)
  • The Alliance did more damage to Kabul than the Shorawi.†   (source)
  • We were driving down the cratered road that winds from Jalalabad to Kabul.†   (source)
  • Like so much else in Kabul, my father's house was the picture of fallen splendor.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.†   (source)
  • When we got to Kabul, I discovered that Hassan had no intention of moving into the house.†   (source)
  • It would be here, in Islamabad, not in Kabul.†   (source)
  • And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood.†   (source)
  • We don't have an American embassy in Kabul.†   (source)
  • THE HOTEL ROOM was a vast improvement over the one in Kabul where Farid and I had stayed.†   (source)
  • Rahim Khan, I don't want to go to Kabul.†   (source)
  • I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed.†   (source)
  • They all said they'd known Baba in Kabul, and they spoke about him respectfully.†   (source)
  • "Kabul is not the way you remember it," he said.†   (source)
  • I barely knew anyone in Kabul anymore, the city where I had lived my entire life.†   (source)
  • I can't go to Kabul, I had said to Rahim Khan.†   (source)
  • Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you'd have me risk everything for...†   (source)
  • A month after I arrived in Peshawar, I received a telephone call from one of my neighbors in Kabul.†   (source)
  • But I did live in Kabul for a number of years.†   (source)
  • IN THE OLD DAYS, the drive from Jalalabad to Kabul took two hours, maybe a little more.†   (source)
  • Baba had "sold" the house to Rahim Khan shortly before he and I fled Kabul.†   (source)
  • The only people in Kabul who get to eat lamb now are the Taliban.†   (source)
  • It took Farid and me over four hours to reach Kabul.†   (source)
  • I remember the first time I saw them rolling into Kabul.†   (source)
  • I want to see the day the Soviets go home disgraced, the day the Mujahideen come to Kabul in victory.†   (source)
  • But I won't rest until the Mujahideen hold a victory parade right here in Kabul" And, with that, she lay down again and pulled up the blanket.†   (source)
  • Mariam sat watching the girl out of the corner of her eye as Rasheed's demands and judgments rained down on them like the rockets on Kabul.†   (source)
  • Anis, one of Kabul's newspapers, had run a story the month before on the renovation of the orphanage.†   (source)
  • Everyone in Kabul is doing the same.†   (source)
  • Jalil was busy telling her that Kabul was so beautiful, the Moghul emperor Babur had asked that he be buried there.†   (source)
  • They celebrated her birthday last week, took her to Cinema Park, where, at last, Titanic was openly screened for the people of Kabul.†   (source)
  • For the first time in years, Laila hears music at Kabul's street corners, rubab and tabla, dootar, harmonium and tamboura, old Ahmad Zahir songs.†   (source)
  • Mariam thought of her six-hundred-and-fifty-kilometer bus trip with Rasheed, from Herat in the west, near the border with Iran, to Kabul in the east.†   (source)
  • Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now, Babi said, women who were studying law, medicine, engineering.†   (source)
  • Rabbani, Tajik leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami faction, who had taught Islam at Kabul University in the days of the monarchy.†   (source)
  • With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.†   (source)
  • There is a part of Laila now that wants to return to Kabul, for Mammy and Babi, for them to see it through her eyes.†   (source)
  • Laila hoped to have a thousand afghanis or more stowed away, half of which would go to the bus fare from Kabul to Peshawar.†   (source)
  • The singing resumed "Sometimes, I swear, sometimes I want to put that thing in a box and let her float down Kabul River.†   (source)
  • For months, they'd settled in the southern outskirts of Kabul, firing on the city, exchanging rockets with Ahmad Shah Massoud.†   (source)
  • That was the day that she, Tariq, and Hasina had watched Soviet tanks and jeeps leave Kabul, the day Tariq had worn that ridiculous Russian fur hat.†   (source)
  • Kabul Radio, the ministries of Communication and the Interior, and the Foreign Ministry building had also been captured.†   (source)
  • For Mammy, even in the end, even after everything went so terribly wrong and Kabul lay in ruins, Massoud was still the Lion of Panjshir.†   (source)
  • At the Lahore Gate bus station, near Pol Mahmood Khan in East Kabul, a row of buses sat idling along the curbside.†   (source)
  • The Kabul River is flowing once again.†   (source)
  • They listened in on the radio as some ten thousand people poured into the streets and marched up and down Kabul's government district.†   (source)
  • When they first came back to Kabul, it distressed Laila that she didn't know where the Taliban had buried Mariam.†   (source)
  • They'd barely made it out of Kabul.†   (source)
  • We'll come back to Kabul, inshallah.†   (source)
  • Massoud's handsome, thoughtful face, eyebrow cocked and trademark pakol tilted, would become ubiquitous in Kabul.†   (source)
  • It was a narrow, crowded bazaar in a neighborhood that Rasheed said was one of Kabul's wealthier ones.†   (source)
  • Laila has to explain to Aziza that when they return to Kabul the Taliban won't be there, that there will not be any fighting, and that she will not be sent back to the orphanage.†   (source)
  • Laila finds it strange to be back in Kabul The city has changed Every day now she sees people planting saplings, painting old houses, carrying bricks for new ones.†   (source)
  • It isn't until Tariq kneels down beside him, until he promises Zalmai that he will buy him a goat just like Alyona in Kabul, that Zalmai reluctantly lets go.†   (source)
  • Maybe hang some pictures of Kabul.†   (source)
  • She pictured herself living there, in Kabul, at the other end of that unimaginable distance, living in a stranger's house where she would have to concede to his moods and his issued demands.†   (source)
  • "Which is your favorite?" he asked Mariam hesitated, pointed to a Volga, and Rasheed laughed Kabul was far more crowded than the little that Mariam had seen of Herat.†   (source)
  • She told about Jalil's wives, and the hurried nikka with Rasheed, the trip to Kabul, her pregnancies, the endless cycles of hope and disappointment, Rasheed's turning on her.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, they would celebrate it.†   (source)
  • She'd been two years old when Ahmad and Noor had left Kabul for Panjshir up north, to join Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud's forces and fight the jihad Laila hardly remembered anything at all about them.†   (source)
  • Beside her, Babi was impassively listening to a man who was arguing that the Soviets might be leaving but that they would send weapons to Najibullah in Kabul.†   (source)
  • I can't believe I'm leaving Kabul.†   (source)
  • In June of that yeah, 1992, there was heavy fighting in West Kabul between the Pashtun forces of the warlord Sayyaf and the Hazaras of the Wahdat faction.†   (source)
  • The women in this part of Kabul were a different breed from the women in the poorer neighborhoods-like the one where she and Rasheed lived, where so many of the women covered fully.†   (source)
  • Men wielding pickaxes swarmed the dilapidated Kabul Museum and smashed pre-Islamic statues to rubble-that is, those that hadn't already been looted by the Mujahideen.†   (source)
  • For two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they'd settled.†   (source)
  • She hears of schools built in Kabul, roads repaved, women returning to work, and her life here, pleasant as it is, grateful as she is for it, seems...insufficient to her.†   (source)
  • She gave him the name of the only street she knew in Peshawar-she'd heard it mentioned once, at the party Mammy had thrown when the Mujahideen had first come to Kabul—"Jamrud Road.†   (source)
  • Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out.†   (source)
  • Laila has heard that Herat's feudal-style warlord, Ismail Khan, has helped rebuild the city with the considerable customs revenue that he collects at the Afghan-Iranian border, money that Kabul says belongs not to him but to the central government.†   (source)
  • It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila The valley Mammy referred to was the Panjshir, the Farsi-speaking Tajik region one hundred kilometers northeast of Kabul.†   (source)
  • There was one thing that hadn't changed in Kabul after all: The kabob was as succulent and delicious as I remembered.†   (source)
  • By then—that would have been 1995—the Shorawi were defeated and long gone and Kabul belonged to Massoud, Rabbani, and the Mujahedin.†   (source)
  • After Giti's death, and the thousands of rounds fired and myriad rockets that had fallen on Kabul, it was the sight of that single round hole in the gate, less than three fingers away from where Laila's head had been, that shook Mammy awake.†   (source)
  • Told him about my meeting with Rahim Khan, the trek to Kabul, the orphanage, the stoning at Ghazi Stadium.†   (source)
  • Days later, when the communists began the summary executions of those connected with Daoud Khan's regime, when rumors began floating about Kabul of eyes gouged and genitals electrocuted in the Pol-e-Charkhi Prison, Mariam would hear of the slaughter that had taken place at the Presidential Palace.†   (source)
  • Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government-No, Babi meant the tribal areas, especially the Pashtun regions in the south or in the east near the Pakistani border, where women were rarely seen on the streets and only then in burqa and accompanied by men.†   (source)
  • I told him about Kabul and the Taliban.†   (source)
  • He asked about Rahim Khan, whom he said he had met in Kabul a few times, and shook his head solemnly when I told him of Rahim Khan's illness.†   (source)
  • And then, from the darkened spirals of her memory, rise two lines of poetry, Babi's farewell ode to Kabul: One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her —walls.†   (source)
  • Kabul was largely at peace.†   (source)
  • This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915.†   (source)
  • Farid said the owner had told him that Kabul had been without electricity for two days now and his generator needed fixing.†   (source)
  • Back in Kabul, if not for the occasional bursts of gunfire, if not for the Soviet soldiers smoking on the sidewalks and the Soviet jeeps always bumping through the streets, war might as well have been a rumor.†   (source)
  • You can't be the chief of KHAD one day and the next day pray in a mosque with people whose relatives you tortured and killed" Feeling the noose tightening around Kabul, Najibullah tried to reach a settlement with the Mujahideen but the Mujahideen balked.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, fear is everywhere, in the streets, in the stadium, in the markets, it is a part of our lives here, Amir agha.†   (source)
  • And now, after more than a decade of sacrificing everything, of leaving behind their families to live in mountains and fight for Afghanistan's sovereignty, the Mujahideen were coming to Kabul, in flesh, blood, and battle-weary bone.†   (source)
  • Children are fragile, Amir Jan. Kabul is already full of broken children and I don't want Sohrab to become another.†   (source)
  • Because when Kabul finally did unroll before us, I was certain, absolutely certain, that he had taken a wrong turn somewhere.†   (source)
  • He knew the difference between a stalactite and a stalagmite, and could tell you that the distance between the earth and the sun was the same as going from Kabul to Ghazni one and a half million times.†   (source)
  • I dream that lawla flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again and rubab music will play in the samovar houses and kites will fly in the skies.†   (source)
  • Next, Mariam knew, he'd go on about Kabul's gardens, and its shops, its trees, and its air, and, before long, she would be on the bus and he would walk alongside it, waving cheerfully, unscathed, spared.†   (source)
  • WE FOUND THE NEW ORPHANAGE in the northern part of Karteh-Seh, along the banks of the dried-up Kabul River.†   (source)
  • Mariam had heard the announcement, in January of that year, that men and women would be seen in different hospitals, that all female staff would be discharged from Kabul's hospitals and sent to work in one central facility.†   (source)
  • But her mind was far away, free and fleet, hurtling like a speeding missile beyond Kabul, over craggy brown hills and over deserts ragged with clumps of sage, past canyons of jagged red rock and over snowcapped mountains..."When I told him I was going back to Kabul, he asked me to find you.†   (source)
  • No shortage of police in this city But you won't find kites or kite shops on Jadeh Maywand or anywhere else in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul's gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man.†   (source)
  • "When the Taliban rolled in and kicked the Alliance out of Kabul, I actually danced on that street," Rahim Khan said.†   (source)
  • What will he think when he comes back to Kabul after the war and finds that I have assumed his place in the house?†   (source)
  • Not Kabul.†   (source)
  • I don't recognize Kabul.†   (source)
  • High above, my kite was tilting side to side like a pendulum, making that old paper-bird-flapping-its-wings sound I always associated with winter mornings in Kabul.†   (source)
  • This is Kabul.†   (source)
  • The trek between Kabul and Jalalabad, a bone-jarring ride down a teetering pass snaking through the rocks, had become a relic now, a relic of two wars.†   (source)
  • I know it doesn't absolve anyone of anything, but the Kabul we lived in in those days was a strange world, one in which some things mattered more than the truth.†   (source)
  • Their coming to Kabul.†   (source)
  • It slays her that the warlords have been allowed back to Kabul, That her parents' murderers live in posh homes with walled gardens, that they have been appointed minister of this and deputy minister of that, that they ride with impunity in shiny, bulletproof SUVs through neighborhoods that they demolished.†   (source)
  • Farid had told me on the way there that Karteh-Seh had been one of the most war-ravaged neighborhoods in Kabul, and, as we stepped out of the truck, the evidence was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • Of course Kabul.†   (source)
  • I'm going to Kabul to find a boy.†   (source)
  • How do you like Kabul?†   (source)
  • Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute.†   (source)
  • You saved my life in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Kabul is waiting.†   (source)
  • We're leaving Kabul.†   (source)
  • I want you to go to Kabul.†   (source)
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