"It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case."

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Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

Hyder Akbar

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“Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.”

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