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- You meet Atiq Shaukat, a jailer for the Taliban. His wife, Musarrat, is very ill and dying. He is late for work and blames it on his wife's illness. He escorts a prostitute to be stoned to death.
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Chapter 1. You meet Atiq Shaukat, a jailer for the Taliban. His wife, Musarrat, is very ill and dying. He is late for work and blames it on his wife's illness. He escorts a prostitute to be stoned to death. You meet Mohsen Ramat. He's against the new Taliban rule.
- Michele Levy, Yasmina Khadra, John Cullen
- 2002
Qassim Abdul Jabbar is the commander in charge of the prison in which Atiq is the jailer. He is around the same age as Atiq, and his association with Haji Palwan’s group of war veterans implies that he fought in the Soviet–Afghan War. Qassim’s defining characteristics are misogyny and ambition.
Atiq Shaukat. Atiq is the first character we meet in the novel, and his constant discontent and anger sets the tone for the rest of the book. He works as a jailer and so sees the effects of the Taliban regime on a daily basis. He is a supporter of the Taliban but is beginning to second-guess his feelings.
Atiq Shaukat is a jailer in Taliban-occupied Kabul, Afghanistan. He oversees a women’s prison. His immediate superior, Qassim Abdul Jabbar, is concerned about Atiq’s well-being, noting that he has been depressed for a while. Atiq oversees the transfer of a woman to her execution for sex work, where she is stoned to death.
Atiq Shaukat extracts a ring of keys from under his long vest and rushes into the jail, followed by two militiawomen hidden inside their burqas. In a corner of the cell, in a pool of light directly under a small window, a veiled woman has just finished her prayers.
Jul 26, 2013 · They are: Mohsen Ramat, an educated young man who once wanted to be a diplomat; his beautiful wife, Zunaira, who has had to give up her career as a magistrate because women are no longer allowed to work; Atiq Shaukat, a jailer who guards prisoners who have been sentenced to death; and his wife, Musarrat, who is dying of an unspecified ...
Feb 1, 2004 · Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, Musarrat, who once rescued Atiq and is now dying of sickness and despair.
