And though he presented only his profile to her, enough of his face was visible that Ruha could see his eyepatch and the pole, golden bar that protruded from beneath his keffiyeh.
The announcement of the years-long sentence for the Iranian woman who removed her hijab in public came just one day before the observance of International Women's Day.
So even though traffic might be flowing in Kabul, and I might be wearing a slightly looser headscarf, there is still a very high level of fear here on the ground that things are going to take an ominous turn.