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You meet Mohsen Ramat. He's against the new Taliban rule. He is at the marketplace when he sees the prostitute being stoned to death at a public execution. Even though he thinks it is wrong, he loses himself, picks up a rock and throws it at her, cracking her head open. Chapter 2. Atiq is starting to question his belief in the Taliban.
- Michele Levy, Yasmina Khadra, John Cullen
- 2002
Feb 1, 2004 · It tells the story of two couples–Mohsen and Zunaira Ramat, born into the privileged classes of pre-Taliban Afghanistan, and the prison guard Atiq Shaukat and his wife Musarrat, raised in poverty and drawn into the jihad in hopes of bettering their lot in life.
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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 ...
Mohsen Ramat is a former diplomat, who studied political science at university. Following the Soviet invasion, Afghan Civil War, and takeover by the Taliban, he is unemployed. Mohsen is an educated man.
Mohsen Ramat does not like public executions. He doesn't like anything that the Taliban have instituted, their "new normal" in Kabul. Despite this, there is something in him that makes him want to join in when he sees a prostitute being stoned to death at the marketplace.
In the crowd, Mohsen Ramat, a former intellectual, joins the crowd, feeling exhilarated when one of the stones he throws hits the woman in the head. Atiq visits his former commander in the military, Mirza Shah, who offers to involve Atiq in black-market deals.
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Dec 18, 2007 · Desperate, exhausted Mohsen wanders through Kabul when he is surrounded by a crowd about to stone an adulterous woman. Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws...
