Afghanistan, July 1969 – Page 14

Meanwhile the airplane had so banged about
that it gave up the Herat flight and canceled[?] again.
The dust storms were already beginning.
The Deputy Governor, who now turned out to
be the Commandant’s son, arrived with a hatchet
of retainers[?], and told in graphic detail the
story of his first marriage. She was the
daughter of a koushai near Kandahar. She
was very beautiful, her father refused to part
with his daughter. He and three friends
kidnapped her and he took her to Kabul
Kandahar. The aggrieved family then
Summoned him to Kabul by covert action.
and he in a moment of passion shot
the daughter, her father, her mother and
their lawyer. But in prison for a year
he escaped hanging by paving the equivalent
of £3,500. “Crime passion no body to blame“