The Swallows of Kabul Chapter 11

A militiaman comes to Atiq at the jail and tells him that Quassim will be coming, and that he is not to leave the jail today. The militiaman seems to get annoyed with Atiq because he does not want to stay at the jail all day waiting, even though that is kind of his job. Atiq just wants the man to leave, but he doesn't want to tell him to go. Atiq mentions that Nazeesh finally got up enough courage to leave Kabul for good. Atiq really makes the militiaman mad when he asks about a man named Qaab, who had died about two years earlier. The militiaman thinks that Atiq should know this and that he just trying to make a fool out of him. The militiaman tells Atiq what happened, but leaves soon after, convinced that Atiq is crazy. Later the same afternoon, Quassim arrives at the jail with two militiawomen, and the prisoner. The prisoner had killed her husband, and she is to be publiclly executed at a big rally the following Friday at the stadium. This prisoner happens to be Zunaira. Finally, all the charaters have become connected! I think that Atiq is going to help Zunaira escape, or atleast try to before she gets killed.