TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019

The poem about a suicide bomb

attack that captures Afghan

people’s heartache

Isis has claimed responsibility for a wedding blast in Kabul that has killed 63 (EPA)

NELOFER PAZIRA

When I was growing up in Kabul, weddings were mixed gatherings. Men wore suits,

women were in fashionable dresses. Couples danced together and wedding parties

were seen as a break from the pain of daily hardship and war.

I recalled all this the moment I saw the terrible pictures of Sunday’s dead, blasted to pieces by a suicide
bomber. He walked into the wedding hall; so far, 63 dead, 180 wounded, and Isis claiming responsibility.
One of the photographs shows a pile of blood-stained shoes, all worn by the victims at the popular “Dubai

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